We use Nix at Project IDX to manage development environments. Nix is an open source environment manager that is fast, scalable, and deterministic. With Nix, there's no more "it works on my machine" problems. Nix may not be a tool you've heard of before, but it's been invaluable for us. In this interview I go into details about how we Nix to power IDX development environments, ensuring that everyone on the team is using the same tools and versions.

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.

Will your future development environment be entirely based in the cloud? I had a chat with Chris Heilmann of WeAreDevelopers about what the future of coding looks like and the shift from local environments to cloud based ones.

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.