Packaging Claude Code on NixOS
2025-03-02
I’ve been heavily using claude-code since its release and have found it to be one of the most powerful LLM-assisted coding tools on the market today.
There was just one problem: it’s not available on NixOS which my home computer is running on. I decided to package it myself.
Fortunately, the packaging process turned out to be relatively straightforward, though with a few interesting challenges. Since claude-code isn’t open-source, we need to work with the npm-hosted version.
I’m documenting my packaging approach below to help fellow NixOS users who want to use this tool.