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Open-source Nix projects categorized as Nixpkgs

Top 23 Nix Nixpkg Projects

  1. nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

    Project mention: Why We're Moving on from Nix | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-07
  2. InfluxDB

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  3. Home Manager using Nix

    Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

    Project mention: I Think It's Time to Give Nix a Chance | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-26

    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.

  4. nix.dev

    Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.

    Project mention: 2025 programming goals | dev.to | 2024-12-30

    Nix.dev

  5. 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 | 2025-05-13

    While 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.

  6. NixOS-Guide

    NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language.

  7. nix-config

    :space_invader: NixOS configuration

  8. nix-1p

    A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. nixpkgs-wayland

    Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS. [maintainers=@colemickens, @Artturin]

  11. nixpkgs

    My Nix system configs! (by malob)

  12. cargo2nix

    Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix

  13. nix-security-lab

    Tool set for Information security professionals and all others

  14. nix-docker

    Docker images for the Nix package manager

  15. docker-nixpkgs

    docker images from nixpkgs [maintainer=@zimbatm]

  16. nixpkgs-esp-dev

    Nix flake and overlay for ESP8266 and ESP32 development.

  17. nixcrpkgs

    Nice nix expressions for cross-compiling.

  18. ethereum.nix

    Nix packages and NixOS modules for the Ethereum ecosystem. [maintainers=@aldoborrero,@brianmcgee,@selfuryon,@bbjubjub2494]

  19. .nixpkgs

    .nixpkgs aka dotfiles with nix

  20. neovim-flake

    Nix flake for Neovim & Scala Metals (by gvolpe)

  21. stackage2nix

    Generate Nix build instructions from a Stack file

  22. 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.

  23. template-nix

    The nix template, configured for Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) to give you pre-built, nix based ephemeral development environments in the cloud.

  24. nixshells

    Frequently used nix shells for Python, CUDA and more.

  25. dotnix

    Personal NixOS & MacOS Configurations (by amz-x)

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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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  • Why We're Moving on from Nix

    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2025
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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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