awesome-nix

An in-depth blog series about creating a Rust application with Nix

Explain Nix syntax visually

It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation

A one page introduction to the Nix language

A modern crash-course to using Nix features, Flakes, and developing with Nix

A YouTube video from Fireship presenting Nix in 100 seconds

Nix Notes

A collection of short notes about Nix, each contributing to the same virtual machine image

The best way to learn, with examples

Nix Shorts

A collection of short notes about how to use Nix, updated for Nix Flakes

An opinionated guide for developers about getting things done using the Nix ecosystem

NixOS & Flakes Book

An unofficial and opinionated NixOS & Flakes book for beginners

A series of high-level tutorials on using Nix Flakes, NixOS, home-manager, etc

An online interactive tutorial on Nix language constructs

A book-length introduction to Nix and flakes

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

Find all versions of a package that were available in a channel and the revision you can download it from

Nix API search engine allowing to search functions based on their types and other attributes

Search through all 2000+ Home Manager options and read how to use them

NüschtOS Search

Simple and fast static-page NixOS option search

Search Nix packages and options from NixOS, Darwin and Home Manager

nixos-anywhere

Install NixOS everywhere via SSH

nixos-generators

Take a NixOS config and build multiple different images types including VirtualBox VMs, Azure images, and installation ISOs

nixos-infect

Replace a running non-NixOS Linux host with NixOS

nixos-up

Super easy NixOS installer that can be used from the installation ISO

nix-installer

Opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts

nix-installer-scripts

Runs the official installer but does some tweaking as well such as adding fcontext for selinux and installing nix outside of the default profile so you don't accidently uninstall it

Get historical git commits for Nix channels

Get the age and current git commit of each Nix channel

Reports showing problematic dependencies (dependencies causing the most failed builds) for major Hydra jobsets

A tracker for whether a PR has made it into a channel yet

bento

A KISS deployment tool to keep your NixOS fleet (servers & workstations) up to date

Colmena

A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool modeled after NixOps and morph

comin

A deployment tool to continuously pull from Git repositories

deploy-rs

A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool

A lightweight toolkit to deploy NixOS systems, remotely or locally

KubeNix

A Kubernetes resource builder using Nix

KuberNix

Single-dependency Kubernetes clusters via Nix packages

morph

A tool for managing existing NixOS hosts

Nixery

A Docker-compatible container registry which builds images ad-hoc via Nix

Nixinate

A Nix flake library to provide app outputs for managing existing NixOS hosts over SSH

NixOps

The official Nix deployment tool, compatible with AWS, Hetzner, and more

pushnix

Simple cli utility that pushes NixOS configuration and triggers a rebuild using ssh

terraform-nixos

A set of Terraform modules designed to deploy NixOS

Use Nix and the NixOS module system to write your Terraform code

nixos-shell

Simple headless VM configuration using Nix (similar to Vagrant)

extra-container

Run declarative NixOS containers from the command line

microvm

NixOS-based MicroVMs

alejandra

An opinionated Nix code formatter optimized for speed and consistency

comma

Quickly run any binary; wraps together and

deadnix

Scan Nix files for dead code

devenv

A Nix-based tool for creating developer shell environments quickly and reproducibly

manix

Find configuration options and function documentation for Nixpkgs, NixOS, and Home Manager

nh

Better output for and home-manger CLI using and

nixfmt

A formatter for Nix code, intended to easily apply a uniform style

nixpkgs-fmt

Nix code formatter for nixpkgs

nixpkgs-hammering

An opinionated linter for Nixpkgs package expressions

nix-alien

Run unpatched binaries on Nix/NixOS easily

nix-diff

A tool to explain why two Nix derivations differ

nix-du

Visualise which gc-roots to delete to free some space in your Nix store

nix-index

Quickly locate Nix packages with specific files

nix-init

Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more

nix-melt

A ranger-like flake.lock viewer

nix-output-monitor

A tool to produce useful graphs and statistics when building derivations

nix-prefetch

A universal tool for updating source checksums

nix-tree

Interactively browse the dependency graph of Nix derivations

nurl

Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs

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

statix

A linter/fixer to check for and fix antipatterns in Nix code

attic

Multi-tenant Nix Binary Cache

Arion

Run with help from Nix/NixOS

cached-nix-shell

A replacement that uses caching to open subsequent shells quickly

Hosted binary cache service; free for open-source projects

compose2nix

Generate a NixOS config from a Docker Compose project

Devbox

Instant, portable, and predictable development environments

devshell

with extra bits and a toml config option to be able to onboard non-nix users

dream2nix

A framework for automatically converting packages from other build systems to Nix

flake.parts

Minimal Nix modules framework for Flakes: split your flakes into modules and get things done with community modules

flake-utils

Pure Nix flake utility functions to help with writing flakes

flake-utils-plus

A lightweight Nix library flake for painless NixOS flake configuration

flakelight

A modular flake framework aiming to minimize boilerplate

flox

Manage and share development environments, package projects, and publish artifacts anywhere

gitignore.nix

The most feature-complete and easy-to-use integration

haumea

Filesystem-based module system for the Nix language similar to traditional programming languages, with support for file hierarchy and visibility

lorri

A much better for development that augments direnv

namaka

Snapshot testing for Nix based on haumea

nil

NIx Language server, an incremental analysis assistent for writing in Nix

niv

Easy dependency management for Nix projects with package pinning

nix-direnv

A fast loader and flake-compliant configuration for the direnv environment auto-loader

nix-health

A program to check the health of your Nix install. Furthermore, individual projects can configure their own health checks in their

nix-update

Update versions/source hashes of nix packages

nixd

Nix language server, based on Nix libraries

nixpkgs-review

The best tool to verify that a pull-request in Nixpkgs is building properly

npins

A simple tool for handling different types of dependencies in a Nix project. It is inspired by and comparable to Niv

pre-commit-hooks.nix

Run linters/formatters at commit time and on your CI

rnix-lsp

A syntax-checking language server for Nix

robotnix

A declarative and reproducible build system for Android (AOSP) images

services-flake

A NixOS-like service configuration framework for Nix flakes

Snowfall Lib

A library that makes it easy to manage your Nix flake by imposing an opinionated file structure

templates

Project templates for many languages using Nix flakes

Makes

A Nix-based CI/CD pipeline framework for building, testing, and releasing projects in any language, from anywhere

nixidy

Kubernetes GitOps with Nix and Argo CD

Define GitLab CI pipelines in pure Nix with full access to all Nix packages (incl. caching)

Standard

An opinionated Nix Flakes framework to keep Nix code in large projects organized, accompanied by a friendly CLI/TUI optized for DevOps scenarios

nixduino

Nix-based tool to help build Arduino sketches

clj-nix

Nix helper functions for Clojure projects

crystal2nix

Convert into Nix expressions

elm2nix

Convert into Nix expressions

nix-gleam

Generic Nix builder for Gleam applications

cabal2nix

Converts a Cabal file into a Nix build expression

haskell-flake

A Nix module for Haskell development

haskell.nix

Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs

nix-haskell-mode

Automatic Haskell setup in Emacs

nixkell

A Haskell project template using Nix and direnv

haxix

Nix flake to build haxe/Heaps.io projects

kebab

Haxe packages for Nix

lean4-nix

Nix flake build for Lean 4, and

Napalm

Support for building npm packages in Nix with a lightweight npm registry

node2nix

Generate Nix expression from a (or ) (to be stored as files)

npmlock2nix

Generate Nix expressions from a (in-memory), primarily for web projects

opam2nix

Generate Nix expressions from opam packages

composer2nix

Generate Nix expressions to build composer packages

composer-plugin-nixify

Composer plugin to help with Nix packaging

composition-c4

Support for building composer packages from a (using IFD)

nix-phps

Flake containing old and unmaintained PHP versions (intended for CI use)

nix-shell

Nix shells for PHP development

Easy PureScript Nix

A project to easily use PureScript and other tools with Nix

purs-nix

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

poetry2nix

Build Python packages directly from . No conversion step needed

Bundix

Generates a Nix expression for your Bundler-managed application

ruby-nix

Generates reproducible ruby/bundler app environment with Nix

cargo2nix

Granular caching, development shell, Nix & Rust integration

crane

A Nix library for building Cargo projects with incremental artifact caching

fenix

Rust toolchains and Rust analyzer nightly for nix

naersk

Build Rust packages directly from . No conversion step needed

nix-cargo-integration

A library that allows easy and effortless integration for Cargo projects

nixpkgs-mozilla

Mozilla's overlay with Rust toolchains and Firefox

rust-nix-templater

Generates Nix build and development files for Rust projects

rust-overlay

Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed Rust toolchains

sbt-derivation

mkDerivation for sbt, similar to buildGoModule

zon2nix

Convert the dependencies in to a Nix expression

base16.nix

Flake way to theme programs in colorschemes, mustache template support included

Home Manager

Manage your user configuration just like NixOS

nix-darwin

Manage macOS configuration just like on NixOS

NixOS-WSL

Modules for running NixOS on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

musnix

Do real-time audio work in NixOS

NixVim

A NeoVim distribution built with Nix modules and Nixpkgs

Self Host Blocks

Modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices

A complete mailserver, managed with NixOS modules

Stylix

System-wide colorscheming and typography for NixOS

nix-bitcoin

Modules and packages for Bitcoin nodes with higher-layer protocols with an emphasis on security

nix-mineral

Conveniently and reasonably harden NixOS

nix-topology

Generate infrastructure and network diagrams directly from your NixOS configuration

impermanence

Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots

NixOS Configuration Editor

Graphical editor for NixOS configuration. Desktop app in Rust and GTK

Nix Software Center

Install and manage Nix packages. Desktop app in Rust and GTK

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

awesome-nix-hpc

High Performance Computing package sets

chaotic-nyx

Daily bumped bleeding edge packages like & others that aren't yet in Nixpkgs. Created by the makers of

nixpkgs-firefox-darwin

Automatically updated Firefox binary packages for macOS

nixpkgs-wayland

Bleeding-edge Wayland packages

NUR

Nix User Repositories. The mother of all overlays, allowing access to user repositories and installing packages via attributes

System Manager

A non-NixOS Linux system configuration tool built on Nix

nixbsd

A NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel

NixNG

A GNU/Linux distribution similar to NixOS, defining difference is a focus on containers and lightweightness

A NixOS-based Linux distribution focused on beginner friendliness and ease of use

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

The annual community conference for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS