diff --git a/nix-conf/home-manager/base/neovim.nix b/nix-conf/home-manager/base/neovim.nix
index f1e51c5..29d6841 100644
--- a/nix-conf/home-manager/base/neovim.nix
+++ b/nix-conf/home-manager/base/neovim.nix
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ in
       vimAlias = true;
       withPython3 = true;
       withNodeJs = true;
+      # Attempt 4: Correct way to make neovim aware of packages
+      # homeConfigurations.config.programs.neovim takes UNWRAPPED neovim
+      # and wraps it. 
+      # Ideally, we build our own neovim and add that to config.home.packages
+      # to share it with nixOS. But we don't really need to share
       extraPackages = nvim_pkgs;
       # only for here for archive-documentation
       # extraPython3Packages = (pypkgs: [
diff --git a/templates/default.nix b/templates/default.nix
index 041b23b..70d9fe4 100644
--- a/templates/default.nix
+++ b/templates/default.nix
@@ -12,4 +12,8 @@
     path = ./rust-monorepo;
     description = "Opinionated Rust monorepo, extended from ./rust, using Cargo workspace";
   };
+  ts-turborepo = {
+    path = ./ts/turborepo;
+    description = "Typescript monorepo with tsconfig, eslint, but with minimal framework attached";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/templates/ts/turborepo/flake.nix b/templates/ts/turborepo/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8446117
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/ts/turborepo/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+{
+  description = "Provides devShell for Nodejs + pnpm";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+    # https://github.com/vercel/turbo/issues/2293#issuecomment-1296094236
+    # work-around for turbo-repo on nix
+    turbo.url = "github:dlip/turbo";
+  };
+
+  outputs = { self, turbo, flake-utils, nixpkgs }:
+    with flake-utils; lib.eachSystem lib.defaultSystems (sys:
+      let
+        overlays = [ turbo.overlay ];
+        # pkgs is our tweaked nixpkgs
+        pkgs = import nixpkgs { system = sys; overlays = overlays; };
+        shellMsg = ''
+          echo "Hello from nix ${sys}"
+          echo "Local development may use our remote planetscale database (pscale login && pnpm dev:infra; pnpm dev)"
+          echo "Or from the specified docker-compose.yml (pnpm dev:local_infra && pnpm dev)"
+          echo "See more on CONTRIBUTING.md"
+        '';
+      in
+      {
+        devShell = pkgs.mkShell {
+          nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.bashInteractive ];
+          buildInputs = [
+            pkgs.nodejs-18_x
+            pkgs.nodePackages.pnpm
+            pkgs.nodePackages.prisma
+            pkgs.prisma-engines
+            pkgs.turbo
+            # pkgs.turbo-tooling
+            pkgs.jq
+            pkgs.pscale
+            pkgs.act # Github workflow
+          ];
+          shellHook =
+            # https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/3026#issuecomment-927258138
+            # nix-direnv is required (impure build?) https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv
+            ''
+              export PRISMA_MIGRATION_ENGINE_BINARY="${pkgs.prisma-engines}/bin/migration-engine"
+              export PRISMA_QUERY_ENGINE_BINARY="${pkgs.prisma-engines}/bin/query-engine"
+              export PRISMA_QUERY_ENGINE_LIBRARY="${pkgs.prisma-engines}/lib/libquery_engine.node"
+              export PRISMA_INTROSPECTION_ENGINE_BINARY="${pkgs.prisma-engines}/bin/introspection-engine"
+              export PRISMA_FMT_BINARY="${pkgs.prisma-engines}/bin/prisma-fmt"
+              export TURBO_BINARY_PATH="${pkgs.turbo}/bin/turbo"
+              pnpm install
+            '' + shellMsg;
+        };
+      });
+}