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Top 23 Nix Nixpkg Projects
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InfluxDB
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Just NixOS. When building the VM / live CD I copy my dotfiles into the Nix store and then during first boot-up I copy them into my home dir and set up symlinks.
The main reason I decided against home-manager was that it makes my simple symlink setup (~/.foo -> ~/.dotfiles/foo) virtually impossible: Symlinks will always point to the read-only Nix store in one way or another. See https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/3514 or one of the countless other tickets on the topic. Through this episode I also learned that home-manager isn't exactly well-documented, either, and also quite opinionated. (Which, to be fair, is not a bad thing – if it works for you, it probably works great.)
Finally, not using home-manager was also a risk management decision in that it's probably best to not go all-in on Nix, NixOS, home-manager etc. all at once. Start with the simplest possible config that gets you running, then iterate.
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Nix.dev
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crane
A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.
Project mention: Posta: Building a Social Blogging Backend with SurrealDB, Nix, and Nushell | dev.to | 2025-05-13While doing research for these projects I came across some small bugs in another project. I made the fixes and opened some PRs which were accepted.
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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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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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nixpkgs-wayland
Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS. [maintainers=@colemickens, @Artturin]
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ethereum.nix
Nix packages and NixOS modules for the Ethereum ecosystem. [maintainers=@aldoborrero,@brianmcgee,@selfuryon,@bbjubjub2494]
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template-nixos
The NixOS template, configured for Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) to give you pre-built, nix based ephemeral operating system environments in the cloud.
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template-nix
The nix template, configured for Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) to give you pre-built, nix based ephemeral development environments in the cloud.
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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).
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Nixpkg projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nixpkgs | 20,834 |
| 2 | Home Manager using Nix | 8,231 |
| 3 | nix.dev | 3,120 |
| 4 | crane | 1,083 |
| 5 | NixOS-Guide | 972 |
| 6 | nix-config | 966 |
| 7 | nix-1p | 943 |
| 8 | nixpkgs-wayland | 561 |
| 9 | nixpkgs | 438 |
| 10 | cargo2nix | 421 |
| 11 | nix-security-lab | 305 |
| 12 | nix-docker | 293 |
| 13 | docker-nixpkgs | 212 |
| 14 | nixpkgs-esp-dev | 207 |
| 15 | nixcrpkgs | 149 |
| 16 | ethereum.nix | 122 |
| 17 | .nixpkgs | 109 |
| 18 | neovim-flake | 102 |
| 19 | stackage2nix | 49 |
| 20 | template-nixos | 38 |
| 21 | template-nix | 31 |
| 22 | nixshells | 19 |
| 23 | dotnix | 18 |
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