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Top 23 Nix nix-flake Projects
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nixos-config
General purpose Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS (with starter templates!) (by dustinlyons)
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Stream
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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！
Project mention: NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-06 -
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nix-config
❄️ My nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS). (by ryan4yin)
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Project mention: Setting up a Nix Development Environment with Flakes and direnv | dev.to | 2025-05-28
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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NixOS-Guide
NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language.
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Project mention: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-30
I've written something like this for NixOS a while back [1], which generates infrastructure diagrams directly from the source of truth (albeit not as pretty as isoflow). I'm sure this could be applied to other declarative tech stacks aswell!
[1]: https://github.com/oddlama/nix-topology
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agenix-rekey
An agenix extension adding secret generation and automatic rekeying using a YubiKey or master-identity
Project mention: NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-01https://github.com/oddlama/agenix-rekey
The ecosystem is in my experience very well fleshed out (7 yrs of use), as long as you don't require a knowledgebase/wiki/ up2date documentation, it's not been a issue for me since I could always fall back on Linux knowledge and just looking for how other distributions do x / how the thing itself is configured , and looking at how perhaps a existing nix module wraps that
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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).
Nix nix-flake discussion
Nix nix-flake related posts
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NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners
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NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
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Flakes Question (because I'm a noob)
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Running AI Models on NixOS
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NixOS and Flakes Book
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NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki
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I finally understand the "I use Arch, btw" thing
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Index
What are some of the best open-source nix-flake projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nixos-config | 2,783 |
| 2 | nixos-and-flakes-book | 2,616 |
| 3 | dotfiles | 1,800 |
| 4 | microvm.nix | 1,778 |
| 5 | nix-config | 1,478 |
| 6 | flake-utils | 1,401 |
| 7 | dotfiles | 1,019 |
| 8 | digga | 1,010 |
| 9 | NixOS-Guide | 981 |
| 10 | nvf | 956 |
| 11 | nix-topology | 735 |
| 12 | flake-utils-plus | 517 |
| 13 | nixpkgs | 438 |
| 14 | nixcfg | 435 |
| 15 | nixflakes | 314 |
| 16 | agenix-rekey | 309 |
| 17 | neovim-flake | 275 |
| 18 | brew-nix | 260 |
| 19 | base16.nix | 242 |
| 20 | nix-config | 216 |
| 21 | nixos-config | 206 |
| 22 | chenglab | 205 |
| 23 | nix-cargo-integration | 200 |
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