diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2e30e089..5c82b2ea 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ cmake-build-debug
 .idea
 docs
 /.vs
+.direnv/
+.envrc
 
 # tools
 tools/raylib_api.json
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fc07bac5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+    pkgs ? import (fetchTarball {
+        url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/02c087f3fe673c9e317f206a627cb6b910336dbe.tar.gz";
+        sha256 = "1l60ar0j7j7jrrg4r7j4kscrih0qn2n0lslffzflhv86lyq650r2";
+    }) { },
+}:
+pkgs.mkShell {
+    packages = [
+        pkgs.cmake
+        pkgs.pkg-config
+        pkgs.raylib
+        /*nixfmt:disable*/
+        pkgs.clang-tools  # clangd, clang-format, clang-tidy
+        pkgs.cpplint      # repo's coding standard
+        pkgs.cmake-format # for .cmake-format.yaml
+        /*nixfmt:enable*/
+    ];
+
+    CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS = "1";
+}