Zero to Nix, a new learning resource for Nix built using îles

[lucperkins]

Hello everyone! Just wanted to share something built with the lovely îles.

Zero to Nix is a learning resource for Nix from Determinate Systems. We built the site using îles, with all of our MDX components in Vue and Tailwind for CSS.

Why did we choose îles? Pretty simple:

• We wanted MDX support for arbitrarily complex interactive components inside our Markdown
• We wanted to have our choice of platform for those interactive components
• We wanted to be able to easily integrate things like Tailwind (which îles accomplishes using Vite)
• îles has built-in content management via useDocuments and other functions, which meant that we didn't have to use something like Contentlayer, which is quite nice but we preferred using framework primitives instead.

Given the current feature velocity of Astro, we may end up switching to that at some point if the site continues to grow, but our experience with îles for going to market has been fantastic overall, and @ElMassimo has been extremely responsive. Our sincere thanks to Máximo and to the îles community 💯

[ElMassimo]

Great to hear, thanks for sharing Luc! 😃