Nixos install instructions don't work anymore / dist directory is missing during runtime about kind HOT 4 CLOSED

@johnchandlerburnham can you take a look?

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Yes, I will take a look tomorrow when I'm home from Christmas. In the meantime @LoPoHa, you should be able to install directly from npm on NixOS with

$ npm set prefix ~/.npm-global
$ export PATH="$HOME/.npm-global:$PATH"
$ npm i -g formality-lang

as described here.

That should fix the immediate problem of getting fm working, but it's a global install, which isn't ideal. Will investigate.

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Ok, removing supplement.json and using the packaged gulp allows the package to be build.

new override.nix

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}
, system ? builtins.currentSystem
}:

let
  nodePackages = import ./default.nix {
    inherit pkgs system;
  };
in
  nodePackages // {
    package = nodePackages.package.override (oldAttrs: {
      buildInputs = oldAttrs.buildInputs or [] ++  [ pkgs.nodePackages.gulp ];
      postInstall = ''
        mkdir $out/dist
        gulp build
        cp -R $out/lib/node_modules/formality-lang/dist/* $out/dist
      '';
    });
  }

Now i only have to make it available to the path.
I'll make a pull request later (maybe tomorrow) when i got it running.

And maybe we should copy lib/bin/ to bin/ and remove lib/.
Just for cleanup reasons.

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I'm dumb.
You can use the override above and nix-env -i -f override.nix to install it.
I'll make a pull request in a few hours with this.

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