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I've been using Nix [0] as a package manager for a while. Rather than installing packages globally like `brew`, the idea with Nix is to have a minimal set of base packages, then to start shell sessions containing just the tools you need. This reduces the amount of cruft just sitting around on your machine.
I wanted to run a local DynamoDB for testing, but you need to have Java installed, and, of course, I don't have it installed by default.
The alternatives the documentation lists [1] are to use Maven (a Java package manager) or Docker but let's face it, if I don't like having Java installed, I'm not going to like running Docker.
I don't like it because on the Mac, it's a waste of CPU/RAM, because it runs a Virtual Machine and a daemon. You're probably wondering why I use a Mac at all, and it's something I wonder myself until I remember when I had a Linux laptop.
Fortunately, I can start a shell with Nix that just contains my base packages, plus Java to run DynamoDB instead.
nix-shell --packages jdk11
So that's fine, but I also need the DynamoDBLocal.jar file, and I want to make sure that I keep the data in my local table between runs.
Well, that's easy enough to pull together into a single script:
#!/bin/sh if ! [ -f ./DynamoDBLocal.jar ]; then curl https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/dynamodb-local-frankfurt/dynamodb_local_latest.zip -o d.zip unzip d.zip rm d.zip fi mkdir -p data nix-shell --packages jdk11 --run "java -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -dbPath ./data"
Now, I can run `zsh ./dynamodb.sh` and I've got it running, but when I exit, I've not got Java installed.
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