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Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv
Learn why having an isolated environment is useful, why setting up an environment with Direnv can be tough, and walk through an example of Direnv + Devbox for a sample NodeJS application.
We've progressed from virtual machines (VirtualBox) to container systems (Docker), and even isolated shells (nix-shell). The problem with using Direnv is that despite it being a very useful tool, its setup requires investing time and getting over the Nix ecosystem's learning curve. So following our philosophy of simplifying complicated tools to make them easy to adopt, we developed an integration between Devbox and Direnv.
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