diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 299e6b3d..5a687dd6 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -50,11 +50,27 @@
         inherit (poetry2nix.lib.mkPoetry2Nix { inherit pkgs; }) mkPoetryEditablePackage;
         text-generation-server = mkPoetryEditablePackage { editablePackageSources = ./server; };
         crateOverrides = import ./nix/crate-overrides.nix { inherit pkgs nix-filter; };
+        launcher = cargoNix.workspaceMembers.text-generation-launcher.build.override {
+          inherit crateOverrides;
+        };
+        router = cargoNix.workspaceMembers.text-generation-router-v3.build.override {
+          inherit crateOverrides;
+        };
+        server = pkgs.python3.pkgs.callPackage ./nix/server.nix { inherit nix-filter; };
       in
       {
-        devShells.default =
-          with pkgs;
-          mkShell {
+        devShells = with pkgs; rec {
+          default = pure;
+
+          pure = mkShell {
+            buildInputs = [
+              launcher
+              router
+              server
+            ];
+          };
+
+          impure = mkShell {
             buildInputs =
               [
                 openssl.dev
@@ -65,43 +81,15 @@
                     "rust-src"
                   ];
                 })
+                protobuf
               ]
               ++ (with python3.pkgs; [
                 venvShellHook
                 pip
-
-                causal-conv1d
-                click
-                einops
-                exllamav2
-                fbgemm-gpu
-                flashinfer
-                flash-attn
-                flash-attn-layer-norm
-                flash-attn-rotary
-                grpc-interceptor
-                grpcio-reflection
-                grpcio-status
-                grpcio-tools
-                hf-transfer
-                ipdb
-                loguru
-                mamba-ssm
-                marlin-kernels
-                opentelemetry-api
-                opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
-                opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc
-                opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
-                peft
-                tokenizers
-                torch
-                transformers
-                vllm
-
-                (cargoNix.workspaceMembers.text-generation-launcher.build.override { inherit crateOverrides; })
-                (cargoNix.workspaceMembers.text-generation-router-v3.build.override { inherit crateOverrides; })
               ]);
 
+            inputsFrom = [ server ];
+
             venvDir = "./.venv";
 
             postVenv = ''
@@ -109,8 +97,10 @@
             '';
             postShellHook = ''
               unset SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
+              export PATH=$PATH:~/.cargo/bin
             '';
           };
+        };
       }
     );
 }
diff --git a/nix/server.nix b/nix/server.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ff40757a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/server.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+{
+  nix-filter,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  poetry-core,
+  mypy-protobuf,
+  causal-conv1d,
+  einops,
+  exllamav2,
+  fbgemm-gpu,
+  flashinfer,
+  flash-attn,
+  flash-attn-layer-norm,
+  flash-attn-rotary,
+  grpc-interceptor,
+  grpcio-reflection,
+  grpcio-status,
+  grpcio-tools,
+  hf-transfer,
+  loguru,
+  mamba-ssm,
+  marlin-kernels,
+  opentelemetry-api,
+  opentelemetry-exporter-otlp,
+  opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc,
+  opentelemetry-semantic-conventions,
+  peft,
+  safetensors,
+  tokenizers,
+  sentencepiece,
+  transformers,
+  typer,
+  vllm,
+}:
+
+let
+  filter = nix-filter.lib;
+in
+buildPythonPackage {
+  name = "text-generation-server";
+
+  src = filter {
+    root = ../.;
+    include = with filter; [
+      isDirectory
+      (and (inDirectory "server") (or_ (matchExt "py") (matchExt "pyi")))
+      "server/pyproject.toml"
+      (and (inDirectory "proto/v3") (matchExt "proto"))
+    ];
+  };
+
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  build-system = [ poetry-core ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ mypy-protobuf ];
+
+  pythonRelaxDeps = [
+    "einops"
+    "huggingface-hub"
+    "loguru"
+    "opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc"
+    "sentencepiece"
+    "typer"
+  ];
+
+  pythonRemoveDeps = [ "scipy" ];
+
+  dependencies = [
+    causal-conv1d
+    einops
+    exllamav2
+    fbgemm-gpu
+    flashinfer
+    flash-attn
+    flash-attn-layer-norm
+    flash-attn-rotary
+    grpc-interceptor
+    grpcio-reflection
+    grpcio-status
+    grpcio-tools
+    hf-transfer
+    loguru
+    mamba-ssm
+    marlin-kernels
+    opentelemetry-api
+    opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
+    opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc
+    opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
+    peft
+    safetensors
+    sentencepiece
+    tokenizers
+    transformers
+    typer
+    vllm
+  ];
+
+  prePatch = ''
+    python -m grpc_tools.protoc -Iproto/v3 --python_out=server/text_generation_server/pb \
+           --grpc_python_out=server/text_generation_server/pb --mypy_out=server/text_generation_server/pb proto/v3/generate.proto
+    find server/text_generation_server/pb/ -type f -name "*.py" -print0 -exec sed -i -e 's/^\(import.*pb2\)/from . \1/g' {} \;
+    touch server/text_generation_server/pb/__init__.py
+    cd server
+  '';
+}