diff --git a/.envrc b/.envrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a722d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.envrc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+use nix;
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a429cf2..72c4380 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ dist
 layers/dot-cams/*/data/states.js
 layers/survey-markers/states.js
 layers/tjx/data/chains.js
+.direnv
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d37600
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+let
+  # nixpkgs = fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tarball/nixos-24.05";
+  pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { config = {}; overlays = []; };
+in
+
+pkgs.mkShellNoCC {
+  packages = with pkgs; [
+    python3
+    python311Packages.requests
+    nodejs
+  ];
+}