devShell

Sets up a shell environment that activates with nix develop or direnv.

Parameters

Note: All parameters for mkShell are also supported.

extraShellHook (optional)

Bash statements added to the shellHook attribute.

fontPaths (optional)

List of sources specifying paths to font files that will be made available to your Typst project. With this, you can compile Typst projects even when the fonts it uses are not available on your system.

Used for setting TYPST_FONT_PATHS (see text#font).

Example

{
  outputs = { nixpkgs, typix }: let
    system = "x86_64-linux";
    pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
  in {
    devShells.${system}.default = typix.lib.${system}.devShell {
      fontPaths = [
        "${pkgs.roboto}/share/fonts/truetype"
      ];
    };
  };
}

forceVirtualPaths (optional)

If there are any conflicts between virtualPaths and files in your project directory, they will not be overwritten unless forceVirtualPaths is true.

Default is false.

virtualPaths (optional)

List of sources that will be made virtually available to your Typst project. Useful for projects which rely on remote resources, such as images or data.

Each element of the list is an attribute set with the following keys:

• src: path to source file or directory
• dest (optional): path where file(s) will be made available (defaults to .)
  • If src is a directory, dest will be a directory containing the files in that directory.
    • Specifying the same dest for multiple src directories will merge them.
  • If src is a file, dest will be a copy of that file.

Instead of an attrset, you may use a path which will be interpreted the same as if you had specified an attrset with just src.

NOTE: Any paths specified here will not overwrite files in your project directory, unless you set forceVirtualPaths to true.

Example

You can specify dependencies in your flake input, and then use them in your project with something like:

{
  inputs = {
    font-awesome = {
      url = "github:FortAwesome/Font-Awesome";
      flake = false;
    };
  };

  outputs = { typix, font-awesome }: let
    system = "x86_64-linux";
  in {
    devShells.${system}.default = typix.lib.${system}.devShell {
      virtualPaths = [
        {
          dest = "icons";
          src = "${font-awesome}/svgs/regular";
        }
      ];
    };
  };
}

Then, reference the files in Typst:

#image("icons/heart.svg")

Source

• devShell