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Development Shell helpers
The nix-shell command has popularized the concept of transient shell environments for development or testing purposes.
However, nix-shell is not the only way to create such environments, and even nix-shell itself can indirectly benefit from this library.
This library provides a set of functions that help create such environments.
devShellTools.valueToString
Converts Nix values to strings in the way the derivation built-in function does.
:::{.example}
valueToString usage examples
devShellTools.valueToString (builtins.toFile "foo" "bar")
=> "/nix/store/...-foo"
devShellTools.valueToString false
=> ""