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Nov 30, 2023

Development / Discovery

• templates (⭐11) - Project templates for many languages using Nix flakes.

Nov 13, 2023

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• devenv (⭐2.7k) - A Nix-based tool for creating developer shell environments quickly and reproducibly.

Nov 08, 2023

Development / Discovery

• Snowfall Lib (⭐158) - A library that makes it easy to manage your Nix flake by imposing an opinionated file structure.

Sep 07, 2023

Development / Discovery

• flakelight (⭐60) - A modular flake framework aiming to minimize boilerplate.

Sep 05, 2023

NixOS Modules / Zig

• NixVim (⭐558) - A NeoVim distribution built with Nix modules and Nixpkgs.

Sep 04, 2023

Programming Languages / Zig

• zon2nix (⭐49) - Convert the dependencies in build.zig.zon to a Nix expression.

Jul 02, 2023

Resources / Learning

• Wombat's Book of Nix - A book-length introduction to Nix and flakes.

Jun 30, 2023

Resources / Learning

• Nix - A One Pager - A one page introduction to the Nix language.

• NixOS & Flakes Book (⭐827) - An unofficial and opinionated NixOS & Flakes book for beginners.

Jun 19, 2023

Channel History / Discovery

• Nixpkgs Bot - A Matrix bot to track when a Nixpkgs pull request reaches a relevant branch.

Development / Discovery

• nixd (⭐446) - Nix language server, based on Nix libraries.

Overlays / Webinterface

• chaotic-nyx (⭐96) - Daily bumped bleeding edge packages like mesa_git & others that aren't yet in Nixpkgs. Created by the makers of Chaotic-AUR.

Jun 18, 2023

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nix-output-monitor - A tool to produce useful graphs and statistics when building derivations.

Jun 08, 2023

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nix-melt (⭐153) - A ranger-like flake.lock viewer.

Jun 02, 2023

Resources / Learning

• Building a Rust service with Nix - An in-depth blog series about creating a Rust application with Nix.

• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition - A modern crash-course to using Nix features, Flakes, and developing with Nix.

• Nix Shorts (⭐12) - A collection of short notes about how to use Nix, updated for Nix Flakes.

• Zero to Nix - A flake-centric guide to Nix and its concepts created by Determinate Systems to quickly onboard beginners.

May 26, 2023

Installation Media / Discovery

• nixos-infect (⭐933) - Replace a running non-NixOS Linux host with NixOS.

Development / Discovery

• Devbox (⭐6.4k) - Instant, portable, and predictable development environments.

• flox (⭐579) - Manage and share development environments, package projects, and publish artifacts anywhere.

• haumea (⭐192) - Filesystem-based module system for the Nix language similar to traditional programming languages, with support for file hierarchy and visibility.

• namaka (⭐80) - Snapshot testing for Nix based on haumea.

Apr 17, 2023

Programming Languages / OCaml

• opam2nix (⭐91) - Generate Nix expressions from opam packages.

Apr 13, 2023

Installation Media / Discovery

• nix-installer (⭐1.1k) - Opinonated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.

Mar 11, 2023

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• deadnix (⭐314) - Scan Nix files for dead code.

Mar 10, 2023

Programming Languages / Ruby

• ruby-nix (⭐89) - Generates reproducible ruby/bundler app environment with Nix.

Feb 26, 2023

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• bento (⭐177) - A KISS deployment tool to keep your NixOS fleet (servers & workstations) up to date.

Programming Languages / Clojure

• clj-nix (⭐120) - Nix helper functions for Clojure projects.

Feb 21, 2023

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nix-init (⭐558) - Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more.

Programming Languages / PureScript

• purs-nix (⭐63) - CLI and library combo designed for managing PureScript projects using Nix. It provides a Nix API that can be used within your projects, as well as a command-line interface for managing your development process.

Jan 12, 2023

Resources / Discovery

• Noogle - Nix API search engine allowing to search functions based on their types and other attributes.

Jan 02, 2023

Virtualisation / Discovery

• extra-container (⭐163) - Run declarative NixOS containers from the command line.

• microvm (⭐748) - NixOS-based MicroVMs.

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nurl (⭐292) - Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs.

Development / Discovery

• nil (⭐864) - NIx Language server, an incremental analysis assistent for writing in Nix.

• nix-update (⭐290) - Update versions/source hashes of nix packages.

Dec 17, 2022

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• Nixinate (⭐174) - A Nix flake library to provide app outputs for managing existing NixOS hosts over SSH.

Nov 10, 2022

DevOps / Discovery

• Standard (⭐312) - An opinionated Nix Flakes framework to keep Nix code in large projects organized, accompanied by a friendly CLI/TUI optized for DevOps scenarios.

Oct 31, 2022

Resources / Discovery

• Home Manager Option Search - Search through all 2000+ Home Manager options and read how to use them.

Oct 16, 2022

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nix-du (⭐247) - Visualise which gc-roots to delete to free some space in your Nix store.

Sep 26, 2022

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nvd - Diff package versions between two store paths; it's especially useful for comparing NixOS generations on rebuild.

Development / Discovery

• flake-utils-plus (⭐399) - A lightweight Nix library flake for painless NixOS flake configuration.

NixOS Configuration Editors / Desktop apps

• NixOS Configuration Editor (⭐311) - Graphical editor for NixOS configuration. Desktop app in Rust and GTK.

• Nix Software Center (⭐364) - Install and manage Nix packages. Desktop app in Rust and GTK.

NixOS Configuration Editors / Webinterface

• MyNixOS - Graphical editor for Nix flakes. Create and manage configurations and modules for NixOS and Nix home-manager. Rather a Nix generator than a Nix editor, because it does not allow to import Nix files.

Sep 21, 2022

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• manix (⭐294) - Find configuration options and function documentation for Nixpkgs, NixOS, and Home Manager.

Development / Discovery

• flake.parts (⭐459) - Minimal Nix modules framework for Flakes: split your flakes into modules and get things done with community modules.

Programming Languages / Haskell

• haskell-flake (⭐100) - A flake-parts Nix module for Haskell development.

Sep 08, 2022

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nixpkgs-hammering (⭐211) - An opinionated linter for Nixpkgs package expressions.

Aug 14, 2022

Development / Discovery

• dream2nix (⭐711) - A framework for automatically converting packages from other build systems to Nix.

• rnix-lsp (⭐671) - A syntax-checking language server for Nix.

Programming Languages / Rust

• crane (⭐616) - A Nix library for building Cargo projects with incremental artifact caching.

Jul 10, 2022

Resources / Learning

• Nix Pills - The best way to learn, with examples.

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• Nixery (⭐1.6k) - A Docker-compatible container registry which builds images ad-hoc via Nix.

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• comma (⭐816) - Quickly run any binary; wraps together nix run and nix-index.

• nix-diff (⭐274) - A tool to explain why two Nix derivations differ.

Development / Discovery

• lorri (⭐542) - A much better nix-shell for development that augments direnv.

Programming Languages / Elm

• elm2nix (⭐97) - Convert elm.json into Nix expressions.

Programming Languages / Node.js

• Napalm (⭐91) - Support for building npm packages in Nix with a lightweight npm registry.

• npmlock2nix (⭐115) - Generate Nix expressions from a package-lock.json (in-memory), primarily for web projects.

Programming Languages / Rust

• cargo2nix (⭐263) - Granular caching, development shell, Nix & Rust integration.

May 07, 2022

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• alejandra (⭐514) - An opinionated Nix code formatter optimized for speed and consistency.

May 01, 2022

NixOS Modules / Zig

• Stylix (⭐408) - System-wide colorscheming and typography for NixOS.

Mar 24, 2022

DevOps / Discovery

• Makes (⭐355) - A Nix-based CI/CD pipeline framework for building, testing, and releasing projects in any language, from anywhere.

Mar 21, 2022

NixOS Modules / Zig

• Home Manager (⭐5k) - Manage your user configuration just like NixOS.

Mar 12, 2022

Channel History / Discovery

• Nix Review Tools Reports - Reports showing problematic dependencies (dependencies causing the most failed builds) for major Hydra jobsets.

Feb 17, 2022

Programming Languages / PHP

• composer-plugin-nixify (⭐14) - Composer plugin to help with Nix packaging.

• nix-shell (⭐117) - Nix shells for PHP development.

NixOS Modules / Zig

• base16.nix (⭐129) - Flake way to theme programs in base16 (⭐341) colorschemes, mustache template support included.

Jan 10, 2022

Development / Discovery

• robotnix (⭐501) - A declarative and reproducible build system for Android (AOSP) images.

Jan 07, 2022

Overlays / Webinterface

• nixpkgs-firefox-darwin (⭐22) - Automatically updated Firefox binary packages for macOS.

Dec 31, 2021

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• deploy-rs (⭐968) - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.

Dec 29, 2021

Resources / Discovery

• Nix Package Versions - Find all versions of a package that were available in a channel and the revision you can download it from.

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nix-alien (⭐305) - Run unpatched binaries on Nix/NixOS easily.

Dec 23, 2021

Overlays / Webinterface

• nixpkgs-wayland (⭐417) - Bleeding-edge Wayland packages.

Nov 22, 2021

Resources / Learning

• How to Learn Nix - It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation.

Nov 19, 2021

Programming Languages / Scala

• sbt-derivation (⭐50) - mkDerivation for sbt, similar to buildGoModule.

Nov 03, 2021

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• statix (⭐432) - A linter/fixer to check for and fix antipatterns in Nix code.

Programming Languages / Rust

• fenix (⭐442) - Rust toolchains and Rust analyzer nightly for nix.

• nixpkgs-mozilla (⭐467) - Mozilla's overlay with Rust toolchains and Firefox.

• rust-overlay (⭐601) - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed Rust toolchains.

Community / Webinterface

• #nixos on Libera.Chat

Nov 01, 2021

Resources / Discovery

• Pkgs on Nix - A database with Nix packages at all versions, from all channels.

Oct 29, 2021

Programming Languages / Rust

• nix-cargo-integration (⭐154) - A library that allows easy and effortless integration for Cargo projects.

Jul 12, 2021

Channel History / Discovery

• nixpkgs PR tracker - A tracker for whether a PR has made it into a channel yet.

Development / Discovery

• devshell (⭐938) - mkShell with extra bits and a toml config option to be able to onboard non-nix users.

• flake-utils (⭐862) - Pure Nix flake utility functions to help with writing flakes.

Jul 08, 2021

Programming Languages / Node.js

• node2nix (⭐470) - Generate Nix expression from a package.json (or package-lock.json) (to be stored as files).

Jun 14, 2021

Programming Languages / PHP

• composer2nix (⭐88) - Generate Nix expressions to build composer packages.

• composition-c4 (⭐7) - Support for building composer packages from a composer.lock (using IFD).

• nix-phps (⭐40) - Flake containing old and unmaintained PHP versions (intended for CI use).

May 25, 2021

Programming Languages / Haskell

• nix-haskell-mode (⭐25) - Automatic Haskell setup in Emacs.

• nixkell (⭐76) - A Haskell project template using Nix and direnv.

Community / Webinterface

• #nix:nixos.org

Apr 14, 2021

Installation Media / Discovery

• nixos-up (⭐199) - Super easy NixOS installer that can be used from the installation ISO.

Apr 10, 2021

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• pushnix (⭐30) - Simple cli utility that pushes NixOS configuration and triggers a rebuild using ssh.

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nixpkgs-fmt (⭐493) - Nix code formatter for nixpkgs.

Apr 07, 2021

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nix-tree (⭐487) - Interactively browse the dependency graph of Nix derivations.

Apr 01, 2021

Development / Discovery

• pre-commit-hooks.nix (⭐384) - Run linters/formatters at commit time and on your CI.

Mar 31, 2021

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• Colmena (⭐772) - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool modeled after NixOps and morph.

Programming Languages / Crystal

• crystal2nix (⭐12) - Convert shard.lock into Nix expressions.

Mar 30, 2021

Programming Languages / Arduino

• nixduino (⭐35) - Nix-based tool to help build Arduino sketches.

Mar 27, 2021

Programming Languages / Rust

• rust-nix-templater (⭐49) - Generates Nix build and development files for Rust projects.

Mar 26, 2021

Community / Webinterface

• NixCon - The annual community conference for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS.

Mar 24, 2021

Resources / Learning

• nix.dev - An opinionated guide for developers about getting things done using the Nix ecosystem.

• Tour of Nix - An online interactive tutorial on Nix language constructs.

Resources / Discovery

• Hound - Handily search across all or selected Nix-related repositories.

Installation Media / Discovery

• nixos-generators (⭐1.2k) - Take a NixOS config and build multiple different images types including VirtualBox VMs, Azure images, and installation ISOs.

Channel History / Discovery

• Nix Infra Status - Get the age and current git commit of each Nix channel.

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• krops - A lightweight toolkit to deploy NixOS systems, remotely or locally.

• KubeNix (⭐302) - A Kubernetes resource builder using Nix.

• KuberNix (⭐722) - Single-dependency Kubernetes clusters via Nix packages.

• NixOps (⭐1.5k) - The official Nix deployment tool, compatible with AWS, Hetzner, and more.

• terraform-nixos (⭐277) - A set of Terraform modules designed to deploy NixOS.

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nix-index (⭐604) - Quickly locate Nix packages with specific files.

• nix-prefetch (⭐97) - A universal tool for updating source checksums.

Development / Discovery

• Arion (⭐487) - Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS.

• cached-nix-shell (⭐164) - A nix-shell replacement that uses caching to open subsequent shells quickly.

• Cachix - Hosted binary cache service; free for open-source projects.

• gitignore.nix (⭐216) - The most feature-complete and easy-to-use .gitignore integration.

• niv (⭐1.3k) - Easy dependency management for Nix projects with package pinning.

• nixpkgs-review (⭐284) - The best tool to verify that a pull-request in Nixpkgs is building properly.

Programming Languages / PureScript

• Easy PureScript Nix (⭐185) - A project to easily use PureScript and other tools with Nix.

Programming Languages / Python

• poetry2nix (⭐611) - Build Python packages directly from Poetry's poetry.lock. No conversion step needed.

Programming Languages / Ruby

• Bundix (⭐146) - Generates a Nix expression for your Bundler-managed application.

Programming Languages / Rust

• naersk (⭐584) - Build Rust packages directly from Cargo.lock. No conversion step needed.

NixOS Modules / Zig

• musnix (⭐361) - Do real-time audio work in NixOS.

• nixcloud-webservices (⭐152) - A Nixpkgs extension with a focus on ease of deployment of web-related technologies.

• Simple Nixos Mailserver - A complete mailserver, managed with NixOS modules.

• nix-bitcoin (⭐391) - Modules and packages for Bitcoin nodes with higher-layer protocols with an emphasis on security.

Overlays / Webinterface

• NUR (⭐996) - Nix User Repositories. The mother of all overlays, allowing access to user repositories and installing packages via attributes.

Community / Webinterface

• Discourse - The best place to get help and discuss Nix-related topics.

Mar 23, 2021

Channel History / Discovery

• Channel History - Get historical git commits for Nix channels.

Mar 22, 2021

Command-Line Tools / Discovery

• nixfmt (⭐455) - A formatter for Nix code, intended to easily apply a uniform style.

Development / Discovery

• nix-direnv (⭐1.1k) - A fast loader and flake-compliant configuration for the direnv environment auto-loader.

Programming Languages / Haskell

• cabal2nix (⭐337) - Converts a Cabal file into a Nix build expression.

• haskell.nix (⭐501) - Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs.

Overlays / Webinterface

• awesome-nix-hpc (⭐50) - High Performance Computing package sets.

Feb 17, 2020

Virtualisation / Discovery

• nixos-shell (⭐488) - Simple headless VM configuration using Nix (similar to Vagrant).

Dec 18, 2019

Resources / Learning

• Nix Notes (⭐49) - A collection of short notes about Nix, each contributing to the same virtual machine image.

Sep 16, 2019

Community / Webinterface

• Wiki (Unofficial)

Sep 12, 2019

Deployment Tools / Discovery

• morph (⭐665) - A tool for managing existing NixOS hosts.

• terranix - Use Nix and the NixOS module system to write your Terraform code.

Sep 07, 2019

Community / Webinterface

• Discord - Nix/Nixos (Unofficial)

May 16, 2019

Overlays / Webinterface

• nix-darwin (⭐1.9k) - Manage macOS configuration just like on NixOS.