After a few failed attempts at deploying my Elm application on NixOS, I'm trying
elm2nix, which some NixOS and Elm users created to attempt to solve some of the
issues that I ran into earlier today.
Elm tries to write to $HOME, which NixOS doesn't like. I typically prefer to
avoid things like cabal2nix, elm2nix, node2nix because I don't like the workflow
that they suggest, but I'm so eager to deploy this application, that I'm trying
it.
Thankfully @tazjin builds Gemma (an Elm project) with Nix, so I could reference
Gemma's default.nix to help me with mine. Elm problematically attempts to
HTTP-fetch a list of packages to verify my project's dependencies. Because Nix
builds derivations in a sandbox without network access, I need to use some
escape hatches (i.e. NIX_REDIRECTS, LD_PRELOAD,
SYSTEM_CERTIFICATE_PATH). Welp... it's packaged now...
I'm also pointing learnpianochords.app to this project's index.html. It will be
live soon! :)
TODO(wpcarro): Rename "Chord Drill Sergeant" -> "Learn Piano Chords" (KISS)
