Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle.
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Flox makes it easy to join a new project, so that means the end of gigantic README files with complex setup procedures. Using Flox, projects can make it as easy as one command - and you don't have to worry that following the instructions for one project will break another.
~/projects/node_project — pkgdb • flox activate
% cd node_project/
✅ You are now using the environment node_project at /vol/homes/floxfan/node_project
To stop using this environment, type 'exit'
~/projects/node_project — pkgdb • flox activate
% ▌
[node-project] % ▌
▌
Getting ready to use environment node_project at /vol/homes/floxfan/node_project
✅ You are now using the environment node_project at /vol/homes/floxfan/node_project
To stop using this environment, type 'exit'
flox [node-project] % ▌
v18.18.2
[node-project] % ▌
Flox environments can quickly be synchronized and shared, even across architectures, so you can skip past all of the “but it works on my machine” stuff. With Flox, it’s the same environment for everyone, no matter what they use.
Flox environments are not locked inside a box. They can be layered on top of your existing operating system, tools, and configuration - or even each other. You can quickly add the new tools your project needs while still using everything you brought with you.
People seem to love
what flox does.
“Every developer has their own long-lived VM and because of that, people have made minor modifications here and there to the system. And so we all kind of have our own bespoke development environments that famously cause the “it works on my machine” problem to happen a lot.”
Flox is all I can expect from a package manager: simple, reliable, efficient, flexible. I can now, without any fear, switch from one project to another, from one programming language to the next. Even better, I can share my environments with other team members so that "it works on my machine, it should work on yours" has a greater chance of success!
"As most developers have experienced, managing environments and dependencies is too complex and chaotic. Flox is a ground up new approach that will undoubtedly become a key part of future toolchains.”
“I can see the immediate value Flox provides, especially sharing development tooling for onboarding and bootstrapping shared development environments.”
“The environments we use to run software are massively bloated, making them risky and slow. Flox gives us a lean and secure alternative, plus makes it easy - an excellent double win”
Hard, intrinsically complex problems, like the ones around build, reproducibility and environments for our software stacks have to offer non incremental change to be adopted. Flox helps bring simplicity to this space, making it approachable, while not hiding the opportunities and power in the tools.”
“The learning curve of Nix is often intimidating and has always prevented me from convincing my colleagues to use Nix for day-to-day development. Flox successfully marries the simplicity of traditional package managers with the reproducible, hermetic foundation of Nix. The imperative interface for defining declarative state is brilliant -- all I ever wanted. Every developer can now take advantage of consistent shared development environments without having to first wrap their heads around Nix.”
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