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Top 23 Nix nix-flake Projects
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nixos-config
General purpose Nix starter template for macOS or NixOS w/ step-by-step instructions (by dustinlyons)
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nix-config
❄️ My nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS). (by ryan4yin)
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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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https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/ is a great guide to Nix with Flakes.
This was the Nix config that helped it 'click' for me: https://github.com/eh8/chenglab that mentions this guide.
I based my own config off of it https://github.com/richardgill/nix
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agenix-rekey
An agenix extension adding secret generation and automatic rekeying using a YubiKey or master-identity
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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 nix-flake projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nixos-config | 3,533 |
| 2 | microvm.nix | 2,644 |
| 3 | nix-config | 1,938 |
| 4 | flake-utils | 1,594 |
| 5 | nvf | 1,527 |
| 6 | NixOS-Guide | 1,106 |
| 7 | dotfiles | 1,077 |
| 8 | digga | 1,026 |
| 9 | nix-topology | 949 |
| 10 | dotfiles | 755 |
| 11 | flake-utils-plus | 548 |
| 12 | nix-homelab | 497 |
| 13 | dendritic | 494 |
| 14 | nixcfg | 476 |
| 15 | chenglab | 439 |
| 16 | agenix-rekey | 421 |
| 17 | brew-nix | 363 |
| 18 | base16.nix | 281 |
| 19 | neovim-flake | 280 |
| 20 | nix-config | 253 |
| 21 | nix-cargo-integration | 220 |
| 22 | nixos-config | 218 |
| 23 | dotfiles | 208 |
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