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Top 12 Nix flake-part Projects
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Project mention: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-27
There are two kinds of organization happening here that you might not see:
1. All .nix files (besides flake.nix) are flake-parts modules: https://flake.parts/
2. It's not only usable with experimental flakes. Works fine with unflake or trix.
The experimental part of flakes is enabling flake support in the `nix` CLI.
Flakes are also a design pattern in pure Nix syntax that can be evaluated fine without the experimental flag.
If you're curious about this meaningful organization, it's pretty well-documented:
https://denful.dev/
As for the experimental nature of flakes, it's more of a social experiment by now:
https://simonshine.dk/articles/if-flakes-are-experimental-wh...
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Project mention: Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-05
Well yes, but if you think you need docker-compose then you're looking for runtime control and not build time control, so you should use this nix flake: https://github.com/juspay/services-flake (which uses process-compose instead of docker-compose).
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process-compose-flake
A `flake-parts` module to spin up processes for development by leveraging `process-compose`
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Project mention: Files: In-repository file generation flake-parts module | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-19
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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-part projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | flake-parts | 1,375 |
| 2 | services-flake | 738 |
| 3 | treefmt-nix | 601 |
| 4 | dendritic | 480 |
| 5 | haskell-flake | 231 |
| 6 | process-compose-flake | 189 |
| 7 | dotfiles | 55 |
| 8 | just-flake | 52 |
| 9 | nixpkgs-f2k | 38 |
| 10 | nsworld | 35 |
| 11 | files | 34 |
| 12 | mipnix | 18 |
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