Nix and Framework-X

[drupol]

Hi,

I've been playing with Nix since a couple of months and I had the idea to test how to package a PHP application.

Nix consists of a package manager and a language to describe packages for the said manager. It features reproducible builds, cross-distro and -platform compatibility, binary caching, as well as a large collection of packages maintained by thousands of contributors.

Nix can be installed on any Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Flakes is the upcoming features of Nix, and I'm currently playing with it since it's very stable.

If you want to give it a try with clue/framework-x, you just to do: nix run github:drupol/framework-x/feat/use-nix

This will run the clue/framework-x demo locally and it will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8080/

If you're curious, you can check the things I had to do in order to get this working in this PR: drupol#1

Docker

To build a docker image containing everything to run the application, do:

nix build github:drupol/framework-x/feat/use-nix#oci -o oci-image.tar.gz
docker load -i oci-image.tar.gz
docker run -p 8080:8080 clue/framework-x:20220408152914-009cc71

PS: I also did the same for the symfony/demo: nix run github:drupol/demo/feat/use-nix

Let me know about what you think!

[SimonFrings]

@drupol Thanks for sharing 👍

Looks great, the more options the better! Maybe this is also something for the future of Framework X.
I'm curious what others have to say about this!

[drupol]

I just added the steps to build a full featured layered docker image by just running one single command.