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.

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Contents

• Resources
  • Learning
  • Discovery
  • Newsletters
• Installation Media
• Channel History
• Deployment Tools
• 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, with examples.
• Nix Shorts - A collection of short notes about Nix.
• 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.

Discovery

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

Newsletters

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

Installation Media

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

Channel History

• Channel History - Get historical git commits for Nix channels.
• Nix Infra Status - Get the age and current git commit of each Nix channel.

Deployment Tools

• 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.
• NixOps - The official Nix deployment tool, compatible with AWS, Hetzner, and more.
• nixos-shell - Simple headless VM configuration using Nix (similar to Vagrant).
• terraform-nixos - A set of Terraform modules 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 - A tool to explain why two Nix derivations differ.
• nix-index - Quickly locate Nix packages with specific files.
• nix-prefetch - A universal tool for updating source checksums.

Development

• Arion - Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS.
• cached-nix-shell - A nix-shell replacement that uses caching to open subsequent shells quickly.
• Cachix - Hosted binary cache service; free for open-source projects.
• gitignore.nix - The most feature-complete and easy-to-use .gitignore integration.
• lorri - A much better nix-shell for development that augments direnv.
• 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.
• nixpkgs-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.

Haskell

• cabal2nix - Converts a Cabal file into a Nix build expression.
• 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 with a 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 - A project to easily use 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 - 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 - Do real-time audio work in NixOS.
• nixcloud-webservices - A Nixpkgs extension with a focus 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 - Manage your 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-edge Rust and Firefox.
• 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.

Community

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