# evolive

evolive is a REST API for live evaluations of Nix expressions, geared towards nixpkgs-style repository.

It provides:

- a streaming endpoint to dispatch evaluation as we go
- cache evaluations and upload them to a S3 bucket for archival in Parquet files (todo)
- a way to retrieve derivation recipes that were evaluated (todo)
- a way to stream the evaluation log for a given ongoing evaluation (todo)

Currently, it makes use of <https://github.com/nix-community/nix-eval-jobs>, in the future, it will support as well:

- https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs
- https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/12416