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title = "Using Nix to build multi-package, full stack Haskell apps"
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**UPDATE**: August 28, 2021 - There is now much improved [official
documentation][docs] of a lot of this material. This post is not obsolete as it
covers GHCJS.
[docs]: https://haskell4nix.readthedocs.io/
**UPDATE**: March 13 2021 - rewrote a fair amount of the post
As part of my job working on an [open source logic
textbook](https://carnap.io), I picked up a Haskell
learning management system](https://carnap.io), I picked up a Haskell
codebase that was rather hard to build. This was problematic for new
contributors getting started, so I wanted to come up with a better process.
Further, I was interested in this simplification allowing continuous
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documentation comments on functions, and often it is useful to read the library
function source alongside the documentation.
I recommend having a terminal with a `nix repl` and the
[nix-doc](https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc) plugin and an editor with a
checkout of the `nixpkgs` source code open while working on Nix stuff.
I recommend keeping the nixpkgs source code open while working on Nix stuff,
and using `nix-doc` and a `nix repl` to help find things. I've written [another
post][nix finding post] on this workflow.
[nix finding post]: ./finding-functions-in-nixpkgs.md
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