2021-12-10-road-to-purescript2nix.md

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title: The Road to purescript2nix summary: Steps to get to purescript2nix tags: nixos, purescript draft: false

I recently put together a tool called purescript2nix. This is a Nix function that lets you easily build a PureScript project with Nix.

There were a couple steps along the way, and this blog post series details all the steps. If you're only interested in using purescript2nix, jump directly to the last post.

1. dhallDirectoryToNix

   This post explains the dhallDirectoryToNix function, which is used for reading a directory of Dhall files in as Nix code.

2. PureScript Package Sets with Hashes

   This post explains a method of adding a hash for each package to a PureScript package set.

3. purescript2nix

   This post explains how to use purescript2nix.