awesome-nix 
A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community
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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.
Grokking
- Hound - Handy search across all or selected nix related repos.
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
- HowOldIs - Get the age/current git commit of all Nix channels.
- Channel History- Get historical git commits for 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.
High Performance Computing
- awesome-nix-hpc - Nix for High Performance Computing link collection.
Command-line tools
- 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
- lorri - A much better
nix-shellfor development. - nix-review - The best tool to verify that a pull-request in nixpkgs is building properly.
- niv - Easy dependency management for Nix projects.
- pre-commit-hooks.nix - Run linters/formatters at commit time and on your CI
- gitignore.nix - Most feature complete and easy to use .gitignore integration
- arion - Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
- Cachix - Hosted binary cache service
Programming languages
Elm
- Nix Elm Tools - Elm language community tooling for Nix and NixOS users.
- elm2nix - Convert elm.json into Nix expressions
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
NodeJS
- napalm - Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry.
- yarn2nix - Generate nix expressions from a yarn.lock file.
- node2nix
PureScript
- easy-purescript-nix - Easy PureScript (and other tools) with Nix
Python
- pypi2nix - Generate Nix expressions for Python packages
- poetry2nix - Build Python packages directly from Poetry’s poetry.lock. No conversion step needed.
Ruby
- bundix - Generates a Nix expression for your Bundler-managed application.
Rust
- naersk - Build Rust packages directly from Cargo.lock. No conversion step needed.
- carnix - Carnix is a compiler from the Cargo.lock files produced by cargo to Nix expressions.
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
- NUR - Nix User Repositories. The mother of all overlays.
- home-manager - Manager user configuration just like NixOS.
- 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.
- nix-bitcoin - Nix packages and nixos modules for Bitcoin nodes with higher layer protocols with an emphasis on security.
- awesome-nix-hpc - High Performance Computing package sets
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)
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