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Top 23 Nix Nixpkg Projects
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I’ve previously used luakit browser [1] with cage WM [2] on a Pi Zero 2 W for my clock build, and it worked quite well.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/by-na...
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/appli...
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/its-always-pizza-oclock-with...
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AppSignal
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Official Nix documentation
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crane
A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.
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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
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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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Project mention: Infra Isn't Special: Why Open Source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Wins | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-03
In Terraform/OpenTofu you just run into unreliable providers, 3rd party providers that make your supply chain a little questionable, or providers with half-broken APIs that weren’t ever intended to be called via terraform. (How many hashpin their binary third party providers? https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-terraform-providers... is still open after 2 years.)
Not just bad FOSS actors, things just fall apart in every ecosystem over time as actors stop contributing.
More dependencies = more problems. Long dependency chains means more dependencies. IaC generally doesn’t have long chains. But you can still depend on a ton of dockerfiles, images, charts, and the same software that gets packaged ends up with CVEs in images rather than at the library import level.
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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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niccup
Hiccup-style HTML generation for Nix. Describe HTML as Nix lists/attrsets, render to strings.
I guess my very own "niccup" (basically hiccup-in-nix) fits that (https://embedding-shapes.github.io/niccup/), as you'll typically always include the library together with a strictly set version, so even when new versions are available, you'd need to explicitly upgrade if you want it.
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SaaSHub
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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).
Nix Nixpkgs discussion
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How to build a circular LCD clock
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Nix Series: NixOS Installation
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Rsync: 3.4.1 –> 3.4.3
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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 | 26,336 |
| 2 | Home Manager using Nix | 10,420 |
| 3 | nix.dev | 4,003 |
| 4 | crane | 1,468 |
| 5 | NixOS-Guide | 1,137 |
| 6 | nix-config | 1,115 |
| 7 | nix-1p | 1,015 |
| 8 | nixpkgs-wayland | 627 |
| 9 | cargo2nix | 469 |
| 10 | nix-security-lab | 413 |
| 11 | nixpkgs-esp-dev | 340 |
| 12 | nix-docker | 300 |
| 13 | docker-nixpkgs | 252 |
| 14 | nixcrpkgs | 155 |
| 15 | ethereum.nix | 155 |
| 16 | .nixpkgs | 109 |
| 17 | nixpkgs-terraform-providers-bin | 63 |
| 18 | stackage2nix | 49 |
| 19 | template-nixos | 40 |
| 20 | template-nix | 32 |
| 21 | nixshells | 20 |
| 22 | dotnix | 18 |
| 23 | niccup | 16 |
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