Noogle

Noogle is a Nix API search engine. It allows you to search functions based on their types and other attributes in nix projects. In nixpkgs especially the builtins and lib attributes.

Beginners-friendly search for nix and nix-related functions
Expert search with directly typing type signatures
Search functions based on:
- type
- signature
- name
tree-search from one type to another

How it works

Indexers:

Data collections need to be up-to-date Those collections are then combined and dumped somewhere (db / json)

For the indexing i currently use:

Nixdoc (a fork) to collect nixpkgs.lib informations
nix __dump-builtins + builtins-types.json for the nix builtins

As some parts of nix already have nixos modules their input/output can be discovered. I still lack some tool to integrate that into noogle.

Search:

haskell-like types are parsed and splitted between input and ouput
text search, looks in all metadata fields for an exact matching word or character sequence. I dont have elastic search yet.

View the prototype here

We need your help / what is missing

Parsing Types: into a real type signature tree
Upstream missing type informations (like in /lib/attrsets.nix)
Write type signatures for the builtins in json
Add path, where each function can be imported from. e.g. lib.makeOverridable or lib.customisation.makeOverridable (it is available in both sets)
Website
- improve share / social interactions
- Add filter by tags e.g. lib.lists
- Prepare for scaling up: Either use api or use indexedDB with WebAssembly for complete offline usage?
- Mobile optimization for reading on the go
Clean up / enhance my nixdoc fork.
- Make the sloppy parser more error resistant
- Some valueable information can be used from the rnix AST ?

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