Setting Up Your First Environment

You’ll need Nix and devenv installed first. If you don’t have them, check out the installation guide.

For more information about these tools, see:

• Nix Package Manager
• devenv Documentation

Tip

Grove solves the “it works on my machine” problem by creating development environments that work exactly the same way on every computer, every time. No more spending hours setting up dependencies!

Creating your environment

To get started with Grove in your project, just run:

kanuka grove init

That’s it! Kānuka will create everything you need:

• devenv.nix - where your environment is defined (devenv.nix reference).
• devenv.yaml - configuration for devenv (devenv.yaml reference).
• kanuka.toml - Kānuka’s own configuration file.
• Updates your .gitignore so you don’t commit the wrong files.

Adding container support

If you want to build containers from your environment, you can enable that too:

kanuka grove init --containers

Next steps

To learn more about kanuka grove init, see the development environments concepts and the command reference.

Or, continue reading to learn how to add packages to your environment.