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Top 23 Nix Nix Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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nix-starter-configs
Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
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nixos-and-flakes-book
:hammer_and_wrench: :heart: Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place! 想要学习使用 NixOS 与 Flakes 吗？在寻找一份新手友好的教程？那你可来对地方了！
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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nixos-config
Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨ (by dustinlyons)
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impermanence
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
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crane
A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.
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reflex-platform
A curated package set and set of tools that let you build Haskell packages so they can run on a variety of platforms. reflex-platform is built on top of the nix package manager.
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Project mention: Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
Project mention: Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.
[0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/
Nix (https://nix.dev/) can provide all of this, although in a smarter way than just through dumping everything in the VCS. Some projects use it already to provide a reproducible development environment and if done right a clean build is just a `nix-build` away.
Is this an example of what you mean (home-manager is defined as part of the flake): https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/main/minimal/flake.nix
Project mention: NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26
I'll be honest, the first few times I tried using Nix I just couldn't get into. It was too complex for the benefits I was getting. But that was using Nix on another OS.
I recently switched to NixOS because I wanted what they were selling and the experience this time around was way better. Having no other option but to figure it out made me learn the essentials real quick (like an exchange program to a foreign country that speaks another language).
If you think about it, when you used Ubuntu or Fedora or RHEL for the first time, and probably for a very long time, you could get by without learning the deep intricacies of what is going on behind the scenes. The same is true with NixOS. The things you need to learn are different, but once you get a basic setup with home-manager setup you're off to the races. (Btw, I used this "book" to get started and it was great: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/)
The best part about using NixOS so far is that things just work. Setting up my graphics card was as simple setting enabled = true. Same for configuring specific audio frameworks. And I had tried many times to get Davinci Resolve working on other distros and always encountered issues leading me to need to dual-boot Windows so I could do video editing. Now I just enabled Davinci Resolve and it works! No more Windows.
If you're brand new to linux on the desktop, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you've been doing that for years, maybe try NixOS in 2024.
I have not used it but this might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
You could also install the nix package manager on Ubuntu.
Project mention: Obscura: The VPN that can't track your activity | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-29It's mostly bash scripts (I know I have stockholm syndrome there) and nixos-rebuild: https://www.haskellforall.com/2023/01/announcing-nixos-rebui...
All the nix deployment tools had too much magic and broke, but nixos-rebuild always works and it's part of Nix!
Disko was great for bootstrapping servers: https://github.com/nix-community/disko
# .../nixvim.nix { config, pkgs, lib, ... }: let myConfig = builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/myusername/nvim"; ref = "master"; }; nixvim = import (builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim"; ref = "nixos-23.05"; }); sqliteLibPath = lib.makeLibraryPath [ pkgs.sqlite ]; in { imports = [ nixvim.homeManagerModules.nixvim ]; home.activation.copyLuaConfig = lib.hm.dag.entryAfter [ "writeBoundary" ] '' if [ ! -d ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim ]; then mkdir -p ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim fi shopt -s extglob cp -r ${myConfig}/!(init.lua) ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim ''; programs.nixvim = { extraPackages = [ pkgs.sqlite ]; enable = true; extraConfigLua = '' vim.g.sqlite_clib_path = "${sqliteLibPath}" .. "/libsqlite3.so" '' + builtins.readFile "${myConfig}/init.lua"; }; }
Project mention: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13
- Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
Project mention: Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-15I’ve been using Nix directly on MacOS with minimal issues for a few years now. Works great.
I hate using docker on Mac and have since replaced it with flakes and devenv.
My configuration with a step by step guide (600+ stars): https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
Project mention: Ask HN: How to Manage Phones and PCs for Elderly Parents? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23You might want to set up NixOS with impermanence, with something like https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence. Install an easy to use desktop environment like ElementaryOS, and configure NixOS with or without Flatpak, if you want to give the user the ability to install new software or not. Then set up automatic updates, automatic garbage collection and you have a truly stable system.
Project mention: Dream2nix – Automate reproducible packaging for various language ecosystems | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-13
I'm trying to understand overlays in order to make a proper rustup install (I've read that this overlay is the best way to go).
Project mention: Can rustc generate identical binaries, with the same hash, from the same souce code? | /r/rust | 2023-06-25
Project mention: Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-24How about converting it to Nix derivation?
https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix
Project mention: The Haskell job market has been growing steaily since 2008 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-15We used reflex-frp, so our app was a webview that worked on localhost and Android. The docs say it also works on iOS but we don't have an iPhone.
The process was learning Functional Reactive Programming, then learning reflex-frp, then getting a contract with obsidian (creators of reflex) for one hour a week where we could ask questions.
( https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform )
We had a grant requirement to create a phone client for Tahoe-LAFS, a Python application with a bunch of dependencies, including ZFEC, a forward error correction library.
( https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/ )
( https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/zfec/ )
We needed bug for bug compatibility with the Python codebase, so I ran Tahoe on localhost and tested the Haskell client against the Python server. We used servant to build the API, since it builds both client and server side from the same description.
( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant )
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Nix projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | nixpkgs | 15,581 |
| 2 | Home Manager using Nix | 5,863 |
| 3 | nix-darwin | 2,235 |
| 4 | nix.dev | 2,041 |
| 5 | nix-starter-configs | 1,864 |
| 6 | nixos-generators | 1,508 |
| 7 | nixos-and-flakes-book | 1,455 |
| 8 | NixOS-WSL | 1,418 |
| 9 | disko | 1,223 |
| 10 | nixvim | 1,142 |
| 11 | devshell | 1,088 |
| 12 | flake-utils | 1,012 |
| 13 | microvm.nix | 998 |
| 14 | digga | 978 |
| 15 | nixos-config | 976 |
| 16 | impermanence | 893 |
| 17 | dream2nix | 856 |
| 18 | nix-1p | 848 |
| 19 | rust-overlay | 745 |
| 20 | crane | 743 |
| 21 | nix-config | 739 |
| 22 | poetry2nix | 726 |
| 23 | reflex-platform | 713 |
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