nix-community / awesome-nix

Awesome Nix A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community. Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. *Please read the contribution guidelines before contributing.* Contents • Resources • Learning • Discovery • Installation Media • Channel History • Deployment Tools • Virtualisation • Command-Line Tools • Development • DevOps • Programming Languages • Arduino • Clojure • Crystal • Elm • Gleam • Haskell • Haxe • Julia • Lean • Node.js • OCaml • PHP • PureScript • Python • Ruby • Rust • Scala • Zig • NixOS Modules • NixOS Configuration Editors • Overlays • Distributions • Community Resources Learning • Building a Rust service with Nix - An in-depth blog series about creating a Rust application with Nix. • Explainix - Explain Nix syntax visually. • How to Learn Nix - It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation. • Nix - A One Pager - A one page introduction to the Nix language. • nix-book - A comprehensive guide to NixOS hardening and configuration. • Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition - A modern crash-course to using Nix features, Flakes, and developing with Nix. • Nix in 100 Seconds - 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. • Nix Pills - The best way to learn, with examples. • Nix Shorts - A collection of short notes about how to use Nix, updated for Nix Flakes. • Nix Starter Config - A few simple Nix Flake templates for getting started with NixOS + home-manager. • nix.dev - 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. • NixOS Asia Tutorial Series - A series of high-level tutorials on using Nix Flakes, NixOS, home-manager, etc. • NixOS in Production - Free (pay-what-you-want) book in pdf format. • Official Nix manual - Latest stable version of the official Nix manual, best used as reference guide. Receives updates when available. • Official NixOS manual - Latest stable version of the official NixOS manual, mix of tutorial and reference guide. Receives updates when available. • Official Nixpkgs manual - Latest stable version of the official Nixpkgs reference manual. Receives updates when available. • Tour of Nix - An online interactive tutorial on Nix language constructs. • Wombat's Book of Nix - A book-length introduction to Nix and flakes. • Zero to Nix - A flake-centric guide to Nix and its concepts created by Determinate Systems to quickly onboard beginners. Discovery • Home Manager Option Search - Search through all 2000+ Home Manager options and read how to use them. • Nix Package Versions - Find all versions of a package that were available in a channel and the revision you can download it from. • nix-search-tv - CLI fuzzy finder for packages and options from Nixpkgs, Home Manager, and more. • Noogle - Nix API search engine allowing to search functions based on their types and other attributes. • NüschtOS Search - Simple and fast static-page NixOS option search. • Searchix - Search Nix packages and options from NixOS, Darwin and Home Manager. Installation Media • 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. • nix-installer - Opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts. • 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. Channel History • - CLI to view and bisect Nixpkgs channel history. • Nix Infra Status - Get the age and current Git commit of each Nix channel. • Nix Review Tools Reports - Reports showing problematic dependencies (dependencies causing the most failed builds) for major Hydra jobsets. • nixpkgs PR tracker - A tracker for whether a PR has made it into a channel yet. Deployment Tools • bento - A KISS deployment tool to keep your NixOS fleet (servers & workstations) up to date. • Clan - A peer-to-peer deployment tool with inbuilt support for secrets and a module system to manage distributed networks. • 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. • krops - 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. • Nixlets - Like Helm but using only Nix, uses Kubenix under the hood. • 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. • terranix - Use Nix and the NixOS module system to write your Terraform code. Virtualisation • extra-container - Run declarative NixOS containers from the command line. • microvm - NixOS-based MicroVMs. • nixos-shell - Simple headless VM configuration using Nix (similar to Vagrant). Command-Line Tools • alejandra - An opinionated Nix code formatter optimized for speed and consistency. • angrr - Auto Nix GC Roots Retention. This tool simply deletes auto GC roots…