[suumcuique]

I've been dipping my toes into the Nix ecosystem recently, having a dev environment per project with direnv is neat but how does this work with IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ IDEA? For example, if I define a specific JDK in my project with Nix, will IntelliJ be able to pick this up? Does anyone have any good resources on how to set this up?

BTW, for others who just want to try it out without having to install anything on your system, there are docker containers you can use as a sandbox: docker run -it nixos/nix bash

[casept]

For vscode, I like the `arrterian.nix-env-selector` extension.

Can IntelliJ be configured to simply use whatever JDK belongs to the `javac` in PATH? If so, it should suffice to simply start it in a `nix-shell`. If not, maybe setting `JAVA_HOME` in your `.envrc` could help?

[pxc]

VSCode and IntelliJ also both have direnv plugins for importing env vars from direnv after the fact. You can use that alongside direnv's Nix integration to load those variables without relaunching your editor/IDE!

[biggestlou]

omg how did I not know about these?!?

[bryanlarsen]

I've just been starting my Emacs from the direnv to ensure it has the right dev tools. This works, but can be annoying. It'd be nice to have a better solution.

[pxc]

Does emacs-envrc work with nix-direnv?