Direnv

Many people use direnv to load an environment upon entering a directory as well as unloading it when exiting the directory. Configuring direnv to work with nushell requires nushell version 0.66 or later.

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Configuring direnv

To make direnv work with nushell the way it does with other shells, we can use the "hooks" functionality:

$env.config = {
  hooks: {
    pre_prompt: [{ ||
      if (which direnv | is-empty) {
        return
      }

      direnv export json | from json | default {} | load-env
      if 'ENV_CONVERSIONS' in $env and 'PATH' in $env.ENV_CONVERSIONS {
        $env.PATH = do $env.ENV_CONVERSIONS.PATH.from_string $env.PATH
      }
    }]
  }
}

Note

you can follow the nu_scripts of Nushell for the always up-to-date version of the hook above

With that configuration in place, direnv should now work with nushell.