Start from a template

NXC proposes several templates, which are good starting points.

Let us use the basic one.

mkdir tuto
cd tuto
nxc init -t basic

The previous command created 3 files in the tuto folder:

• nxc.json: a JSON file required by NXC. You never have to modify it.

• flake.nix: the Nix file responsible to lock all the inputs.

• composition.nix: the Nix file representing the distributed environment.

To ensure a good reproducibility of the composition, Nix (flake) uses Git to trace files.

Let us create a Git repository and add every created file to it:

git init
git add **