What if you had a package.json for your entire development environment? That's dev.nix.
We use Nix in IDX so in one file you can declare the needed runtimes and tools and most importantly their versions. This file is checked into source so anyone contributing to the project has everything they need when the workstation boots up.
Let's dive in.
A Year of Project IDX
Learn how to use some of Project IDX's built-in Al-assistance features to help speed up and refine your developer workflow, all backed by Gemini, Google's latest and most capable Al model.
Yesterday we announced new features in Project IDX
📱 Android Emulator & iOS Simulator in browser
💻 A template gallery ready for your new projects
🐳 Docker in a single line of code
🌎 AI in 15 new regions
⚡ Instantly run CLI tools
⬇️ Here's a wrap up of everything you need to know
🔮 IDX AI + TypeScript tip!
Take a nested JSON object and prompt for the types. You'll get the parent type with all the children types specified as well.
Generative AI is full of time savers. The AI Chat in Project IDX has a contextual understanding of your codebase and can help you generate TypeScript types, write unit tests, and documentation based comments like JSDoc.
What's the experience of Project IDX? I had an incredible chat on Syntax.fm discussing the details of IDX. We go over Flutter apps on IDX, how we use nix for custom environments, latency in cloud environments, project sharing, extensions, and a whole lot more.
Project IDX is still in early development but we wanted to share a preview of it's current capabilities. We just posted a video that covers project creation, terminal commands, deployment, environment customization, and generative AI for coding tasks.