Hello, just wondering what the process is for building my project locally from my Flake output.

I think the problem is how Flakes handle files in .gitignore? I have a dist/ folder that is generated via Webpack/Babel at build-time, and it is currently gitignore'd. Things work fine if I take it out of the .gitignore file and run

$ git add dist/
$ nix build

When I don't do that, the build fails with message: error: getting status of '/nix/store/miap1bv0r73waw5g52ln2gnqjq8848yl-source/dist': No such file or directory

I try to build the package using npmBuildPackage, which runs the npm run build script by default in the buildPhase. This is fine and it should use webpack/babel to produce a dist/ directory.

I don't define any custom buildPhase, but I do define a custom installPhase which is simply:

installPhase = ''
  runHook preInstall

  cp -r ./dist $out/dist

  runHook postInstall
'';

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Hello, just wondering what the process is for building my project locally from my Flake output.

I think the problem is how Flakes handle files in .gitignore? I have a dist/ folder that is generated via Webpack/Babel at build-time, and it is currently gitignore'd. Things work fine if I take it out of the .gitignore file and run

$ git add dist/
$ nix build

When I don't do that, the build fails with message: error: getting status of '/nix/store/miap1bv0r73waw5g52ln2gnqjq8848yl-source/dist': No such file or directory

I try to build the package using npmBuildPackage, which runs the npm run build script by default in the buildPhase. This is fine and it should use webpack/babel to produce a dist/ directory.

I don't define any custom buildPhase, but I do define a custom installPhase which is simply:

installPhase = ''
  runHook preInstall

  mkdir -p $out/
  cp -r ./dist $out/dist

  runHook postInstall
'';

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

In reply to @tumble1999:matrix.org
ok so if i have a nodejs project built to an exe
and i have a nixos config flake pull it in as a flake input
and the nixos config creates a systemd service running it
and i have the systemd have ${packgeVariable}/bin/name in the exec thing
and i tell systemd to have enviroment variable set for that service
will it get them and the prohect can use them in procress.env
or will there need to be some equivalent to --pure or something

       > godotenv -f .env ./fider
       > /nix/store/306znyj77fv49kwnkpxmb0j2znqpa8bj-bash-5.2p26/bin/bash: line 1: godotenv: command not found