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Top 23 Nix flake Projects

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  1. microvm.nix

    NixOS MicroVMs

    Project mention: I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-24

    You could manage those VMs with https://microvm-nix.github.io/microvm.nix/ that helps with mounting the nix store read only from the host into the vm. That should save more space than trying to reduce the dependencies of the system closure of the vm.

  2. AppSignal

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  3. flake-utils

    Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]

  4. dotfiles

    NixOS system config & Home-Manager user config (by fufexan)

  5. fenix

    Rust toolchains and rust-analyzer nightly for Nix [maintainers=@figsoda, @eureka-cpu] (by figsoda)

  6. digga

    A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.

  7. nix-topology

    🍁 Generate infrastructure and network diagrams directly from your NixOS configurations

  8. nix-config

    My Personal Nix, NixOS and Nix-Darwin System Configuration Flake (by MatthiasBenaets)

  9. Kargo

    Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.

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  10. system

    Declarative system configurations using nixOS, nix-darwin, and home-manager

  11. nix-config

    My personal NixOS config (by lovesegfault)

  12. haumea

    Filesystem-based module system for Nix [maintainer=@figsoda]

  13. brew-nix

    Experimental nix expression to package all MacOS casks from homebrew automatically

  14. base16.nix

    Theme applications with your favourite base16 colorschemes in Nix

  15. neovim-flake

    Nix flake for neovim with configuration

  16. nix-config

    ❄️ My nix config and dotfiles (by oddlama)

  17. nixos

    My NixOS Configurations

  18. nix-cargo-integration

    Library to easily and effortlessly integrate Cargo projects with Nix.

  19. process-compose-flake

    A `flake-parts` module to spin up processes for development by leveraging `process-compose`

  20. nixconfig

    My NixOS config

  21. templates

    Nix flake templates managed by the community [maintainer=@IogaMaster] (by nix-community)

  22. dotfiles

    It’s not “just dotfiles” - it's extreme modularity that looks and feels like a NixOS flake. It's Voice-driven DevOps, it's a declarative home automation system, it's a self-contained auto-documenting monster. (by QuackHack-McBlindy)

    Project mention: Nix Scripts | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-24

  23. nix-configs

    My Nix{OS} configuration files (by thiagokokada)

  24. nix

    Niri + AGS based desktop environment on top of nixos (by knoopx)

    Project mention: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-03

    I second this, if you are daily niri user, show your appreciation, I already did! Here's my personal setup, hope it inspires someone to try it https://github.com/knoopx/nix

  25. cfg

    My NixOS configuration featuring niri and neovim

  26. SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source flake projects in Nix? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 microvm.nix 2,908
2 flake-utils 1,619
3 dotfiles 1,138
4 fenix 1,116
5 digga 1,021
6 nix-topology 993
7 nix-config 743
8 system 530
9 nix-config 460
10 haumea 418
11 brew-nix 374
12 base16.nix 284
13 neovim-flake 281
14 nix-config 271
15 nixos 230
16 nix-cargo-integration 217
17 process-compose-flake 205
18 nixconfig 184
19 templates 150
20 dotfiles 127
21 nix-configs 123
22 nix 94
23 cfg 86

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