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I've _tried_ going down this route a couple times, with mixed success. Thus far the best experience has been with [lorelei](https://github.com/shajra/direnv-nix-lorelei), which does a decent job making Nix and Direnv play nice and being relatively transparent and forgettable once set up.

Still feels like I don't know what's going on under Nix's hood, though. That syntax...

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Some of that functionality is built into Nix/Flakes now.. i believe. Ie i used to use Lorelei but these days i just use Nix and Flakes with Direnv directly. Not sure even how it works, but it works great.

But i use Flakes through my entire setup, so i imagine that's why.

nix-direnv[1] is pretty seamless and performant once you have direnv installed and set up. I have a devshell flake template that looks similar to theirs. I had an edge case bug that I was dealing with, and they had a release that fixed it shortly after I reported it.

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv#flakes-support

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