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Direnv support

Section titled “Direnv support”

It is recommended to set up a direnv integration, so you can transparently access programs provided from the development shell.

While there is no built-in direnv integration as of Emacs 30, there are a few third-party packages for that. One option is envrc-mode by Steve Purcell, which you can install as envrc from MELPA.

Other recommendations

Section titled “Other recommendations”

These recommendations are not specific to Nix but are suggested to make you feel productive when working with modern software development projects.

LSP clients

Section titled “LSP clients”

Also, lsp-booster is recommended for users of both lsp-mode and eglot.

See a corresponding awesome-emacs section for other options.

Formatters

Section titled “Formatters”

Compile frontend

Section titled “Compile frontend”

See awesome-emacs.

How to maintain project-specific settings

Section titled “How to maintain project-specific settings”

Emacs provides a way to keep per-project configuration that is .dir-locals.el. It is also possible to apply common settings to a set of directories using dir-locals-set-class-variables and dir-locals-set-directory-class. See the Emacs Manual for details.