TIL: How to Setup Neovim for Nixlang

I have been recently using NixOS/home-manager and I have been writing a lot of nixlang. To have my system state declaratively set up. I have been doing most of this editing in neovim. It took me a bit of time to work out how to get it set up so there is some basic LSP support and auto-formatting. I created a file called nix.lua and it looks like this:

return {
  -- Correctly setup lspconfig for Nix 🚀
  {
    "neovim/nvim-lspconfig",
    opts = {
      servers = {
          -- Ensure mason installs the server
          rnix = {},
      },
      settings = {
          rnix = {},
      },
    },
  },
  {
    "jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim",
    opts = function(_, opts)
      local nls = require("null-ls")
      if type(opts.sources) == "table" then
          vim.list_extend(opts.sources, {
              nls.builtins.code_actions.statix,
              nls.builtins.formatting.alejandra,
              nls.builtins.diagnostics.deadnix,
          })
      end
    end,
  },
}

This config will make sure we have some basic LSP i.e. missing pkgs definition in our expressions. It will auto-format our code as well. Which is very helpful.

P.S. I still don’t have any form of auto-complete setup. If you have any ideas I’m all ears.

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