Master Nix Debugging with 3 Easy Techniques 🛠️

I found Nix a bit hard to use at first. When I created the previous batch of videos about building/distributing applications in Nix, I found the following 3 techniques to be very helpful in diving into the details and getting Nix to do what I actually wanted.

Slides for this video are in pure React! More on how I did this soon - I'd love to turn this into a framework like Sli.dev so that others can use this technique too.

Article/code/slides for this video: https://github.com/pagekey/education/tree/main/182-Nix-Debugging-Strategies

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:16 PageKey: Take Back Tech
0:46 On the slides (React w/o Framework)
1:03 Overview
1:12 (1) nix-repl
2:34 (2) Using default.nix
3:10 (3) Clearing Cache with Precision


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