awesome-nix/README.md

Awesome Nix

A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community.

Please read the contribution guidelines before contributing.

Contents

• Resources
  • Learning
  • Grokking
  • Newsletters
• Installation Media
• Channel History
• Cloud Stuff
• Command-Line Tools
• Development
• Programming Languages
  • Elm
  • Haskell
  • Node.js
  • PureScript
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
• NixOS Modules
• Overlays
• Community

Resources

Learning

• Nix Notes - A collection of short notes about Nix, each contributing to the same virtual machine image.
• Nix Pills - The best way to learn by examples.
• Nix Shorts - A collection of short notes about Nix.
• nix.dev - An opinionated guide for developers getting things done using the Nix ecosystem.
• Tour of Nix - Online interactive tutorial on Nix language constructs.

Grokking

• Hound - Handy search across all or selected nix related repos.
• Nixpkgs Database - A database with Nix packages at all versions, from all channels.

Newsletters

• NixOS Weekly - The best newsletter to stay informed about community updates.

Installation Media

• nixos-generators - Take a nixos config and build multile usage images including VirtualBox, Azure, installation iso among other formats.

Channel History

• Channel History - Get historical git commits for Nix channels.
• Nix Infra Status - Get the age/current git commit of all Nix channels.

Cloud Stuff

• krops - A lightweigt toolkit to deploy NixOS systems, remotely or locally.
• kubenix - Kubernetes resource builder using nix.
• morph - A tool for managing existing NixOS hosts.
• nixery - Container registry which builds images ad-hoc via Nix.
• nixops - Deploy using Nix.
• nixos-shell - Simple headless VM configuration using Nix (similar to Vagrant).
• terraform-nixos - A set of Terraform modules that are designed to deploy NixOS.
• terranix - Use Nix and the NixOS module system to write your Terraform code.

Command-Line Tools

• comma - Quickly run any binary; wraps together nix run and nix-index.
• nixfmt - A formatter for Nix code, intended to easily apply a uniform style.
• nix-diff - Explain why two Nix derivations differ.
• nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files.
• nix-prefetch - Universal tool to update source checksums.

Development

• arion - Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS.
• cached-nix-shell - A nix-shell replacementt that uses caching to open subsequent shells quickly.
• Cachix - Hosted binary cache service.
• gitignore.nix - Most feature complete and easy to use .gitignore integration.
• lorri - A much better nix-shell for development.
• niv - Easy dependency management for Nix projects.
• nix-direnv - A fast loader and flake-compliant configuration for the direnv environment auto-loader.
• nix-review - The best tool to verify that a pull-request in nixpkgs is building properly.
• pre-commit-hooks.nix - Run linters/formatters at commit time and on your CI.

Programming Languages

Elm

• elm2nix - Convert elm.json into Nix expressions.
• Nix Elm Tools - Elm language community tooling for Nix and NixOS users.

Haskell

• cabal2nix - Converts a Cabal file into a Nix build expression.
• snack - Nix-based incremental build tool for Haskell projects.
• stack2nix - Generate nix expressions for Haskell projects.
• nix-haskell-mode - Automatic Haskell setup in Emacs.
• haskell.nix - Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs.

Node.js

• napalm - Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry.
• node2nix - Generate nix expressions from a package.lock npm file.
• yarn2nix - Generate nix expressions from a yarn.lock file.

PureScript

• easy-purescript-nix - Easy PureScript (and other tools) with Nix.

Python

• mach-nix - Tool to create highly reproducible python environments.
• poetry2nix - Build Python packages directly from Poetry's poetry.lock. No conversion step needed.
• pypi2nix - Generate Nix expressions for Python packages.

Ruby

• bundix - Generates a Nix expression for your Bundler-managed application.

Rust

• carnix - Carnix is a compiler from the Cargo.lock files produced by cargo to Nix expressions.
• fenix - Rust nightly toolchains and rust analyzer nightly for nix.
• naersk - Build Rust packages directly from Cargo.lock. No conversion step needed.

NixOS Modules

• Musnix - Real-time audio in NixOS.
• nixcloud-webservices - Focuses on ease of deployment of web-related technologies.
• Simple Nixos Mailserver - A complete mailserver managed with NixOS modules.

Overlays

• awesome-nix-hpc - High Performance Computing package sets.
• home-manager - Manager user configuration just like NixOS.
• nix-bitcoin - Nix packages and nixos modules for Bitcoin nodes with higher layer protocols with an emphasis on security.
• nix-darwin - Manage macOS configuration just like on NixOS.
• nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla's overlay with bleeding Rust and Firefox.
• nixpkgs-wayland - Bleeding edge Wayland packages.
• NUR - Nix User Repositories. The mother of all overlays.

Community

• #nix:matrix.org (Unofficial)
• #nixos on FreeNode
• Discord - Nix/Nixos (Unofficial)
• Discourse - The best place to get help and discuss nix-related topic.
• Wiki (Unofficial)