Development

Developmet Tools

Jupyter

export JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/jupyter                        # Jupyter configuration home

Node:

export NODE_REPL_HISTORY="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/node_repl_history #nodejs

Node REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) History

export NODE_REPL_HISTORY="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/node_repl_history

NPM:

export NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/npm/npmrc #npm

NVM:

export NVM_DIR="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/nvm #nvm

PNPM:

export PNPM_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/pnpm
case ":$PATH:" in
  *":$PNPM_HOME:"*) ;;
  *) export PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH" ;;
esac

Ruby:

export GEM_HOME="$(gem env user_gemhome)"                                 # GEM home
export PATH=$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin                                           # Adding gems to PATH
export BUNDLE_USER_CACHE=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/bundle                           # Ruby Bundler cache
export BUNDLE_USER_CONFIG=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bundle/config                  # Ruby Bundler configuration dir
export BUNDLE_USER_PLUGIN=$XDG_DATA_HOME/bundle                           # Ruby Bundler data files

Go:

export GOPATH=$XDG_DATA_HOME/go                                           # GO
export GOMODCACHE=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/go/mod                                  # GO Cache

Containers and VMs

Docker:

export DOCKER_CONFIG="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/docker

Kubernetes:

export MINIKUBE_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/minikube

Vagrant:

export VAGRANT_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/vagrant
export VAGRANT_ALIAS_FILE="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/vagrant/aliases

Automation

Ansible:

export ANSIBLE_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/ansible"
export ANSIBLE_CONFIG="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/ansible.cfg"
export ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CACHE_DIR="${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/ansible/galaxy_cache"
export ANSIBLE_LOCAL_TEMP="${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/ansible/tmp"
export ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH_DIR="${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/ansible/cp"
export ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR="${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/ansible_async"

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory