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       Declarative Vencord configuration on NixOS
       2024-11-01
       Last edit: 2024-11-01
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       After installing 
  HTML Vesktop
        in the classic way on NixOS, i.e. by installing the `vesktop` package in the official Nix expressions collection. I wondered if there wasn't a cleaner way of configuring the application. Because configuring an application on every new system is a pain.
       
       So I found 
  HTML Nixcord](https://github.com/KaylorBen/nixcord). It is a [home-manager](https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager) module that allows you to declare [Vencord
        parameters and plugins in Nix.
       
       It's pretty simple to use and works perfectly. Just add it to the home-manager's imported modules and activate it.
       
       I've written my own Nix module that wraps nixcord, so here's what it looks like.
       
       ```nix
       {
         config,
         lib,
         namespace,
         ...
       }:
       let
         inherit (lib) mkIf types strings;
         inherit (lib.${namespace})
           mkBoolOpt
           mkOpt
           enabled
           disabled
           ;
       
         cfg = config.${namespace}.messages.discord;
       
         trimWith' =
           s:
           strings.trimWith {
             start = true;
             end = true;
           } s;
       in
       {
         options.${namespace}.messages.discord = with types; {
           enable = mkBoolOpt false "Whether or not to manage discord.";
           quickCss = mkOpt str (builtins.readFile ./custom.css) "Vencord quick CSS.";
           config = mkOpt attrs {
             useQuickCss = ((trimWith' cfg.quickCss) != "");
             plugins = {
               betterFolders = enabled;
               betterRoleContext = enabled;
               crashHandler = enabled;
               memberCount = enabled;
               mentionAvatars = enabled;
               messageLatency = enabled;
               showHiddenThings = enabled;
               showMeYourName = enabled;
               webContextMenus = enabled;
               webKeybinds = enabled;
               webScreenShareFixes = enabled;
               alwaysAnimate = enabled;
             };
           } "Manage the nixcord configuration.";
         };
       
         config = mkIf cfg.enable {
           stylix.targets.vesktop.enable = false;
       
           programs.nixcord = {
             enable = true;
             discord = disabled;
             vesktop.enable = true;
       
             inherit (cfg) config quickCss;
           };
         };
       }
       ```
       
       With regard to the above code snippet, please note that in my case, the home-manager modules are managed by the 
  HTML Snowfall lib
        .
       
       ```nix
       enabled = { enable = true; };
       disabled = { enable = false; };
       ```
       
       I've explicitly deactivated de Discord which is enabled by default, as well as the Vesktop theming by 
  HTML Stylix](https://stylix.danth.me) because the [Dracula
        theme (far too cyan-based).
       
       Instead I downloaded 
  HTML draculatheme.com/betterdiscord
        so as not to depend on the Internet and activated it with the `quickCss` option.
       
  HTML Nixcord
        is really great, you really should use it !