Devshell-files: Static files generators

[hugosenari]

Hi, everyone.

Firstly I would like to thank this project, it has almost all I've been looking for as developer 😍

For missing parts it makes easy to accomplish by myself, and since it may be helpful to others I'm sharing it here:

Devshell-files (sorry I'm not good at naming things)

What: Helps static files creation - text, json, yaml, toml and hcl - using nix syntax
Why: "Config Sucks", "Configuration Complexity Curse", "Noyaml", etc...

Example

# examples/hello.nix
{
  config.files.json."/hello.json".hello = "world";
  config.files.toml."/hello.toml".hello = "world";
  config.files.yaml."/hello.yaml".hello = "world";
  config.files.hcl."/hello.hcl".hello = "world";
  config.files.text."/hello.txt" = "world";
}

Other features: gitignore templates, license templates, modules2markdown and markdown2html
Projects using it: gh-action yaml file generator², friendly modules random modules documentation
How: it is basically a copy of home-manager file-type and use base git dir as home
To-do: ini files and asks if anything there would better be in devshell

There are anything that would better be in devshell?

² to be honest isn't a project but result of 'how to' from docs and it works so well that I'm using in other projects

[zimbatm]

Hi hugosenari,

Thanks for the kind words. With your module, devshell is coming closer to a home-manager on the project-level which is quite cool to see.

I need to take a closer look at the implementation but I wouldn't be opposed to adding some of those modules to the devshell extras. And/or list your project in the README.