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  1. nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

    Project mention: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-07

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. Home Manager using Nix

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

    Project mention: Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-23

    To have your Nix-based setup reproducible across different OS (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, WSL2, MacOS, and NixOS), and have an extensible base config that can be customized to different situations, the go-to framework is home-manager (not NixOS, which only works on NixOS, or NixOS on WSL 2).

    https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

  4. nix.dev

    Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.

    Project mention: NixOS vs Traditional Linux: Why I Made the Switch and What I Learned | dev.to | 2026-04-09

    nix.dev – practical guide for using Nix in real projects

  5. crane

    A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.

  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 :space_invader:

  8. nix-1p

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

  9. nixpkgs-wayland

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

  10. cargo2nix

    Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix

  11. nix-security-lab

    Tool set for Information security professionals and all others

  12. nixpkgs-esp-dev

    Nix flake and overlay for ESP8266 and ESP32 development.

  13. nix-docker

    Docker images for the Nix package manager

  14. docker-nixpkgs

    docker images from nixpkgs [maintainer=@zimbatm]

  15. nixcrpkgs

    Nice nix expressions for cross-compiling.

  16. ethereum.nix

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

  17. neovim-flake

    Nix flake for Neovim & Scala Metals (by gvolpe)

  18. nixpkgs-terraform-providers-bin

    auto-updating terraform providers for nix [maintainer=@zimbatm]

    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.

  19. stackage2nix

    Generate Nix build instructions from a Stack file

  20. 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.

  21. template-nix

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

  22. dotnix

    Personal NixOS & MacOS Configurations (by amz-x)

  23. nixshells

    Frequently used nix shells for Python, CUDA and more.

  24. niccup

    Hiccup-style HTML generation for Nix. Describe HTML as Nix lists/attrsets, render to strings.

    Project mention: Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-04

    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.

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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What are some of the best open-source Nixpkg projects in Nix? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 nixpkgs 25,000
2 Home Manager using Nix 9,890
3 nix.dev 3,799
4 crane 1,383
5 NixOS-Guide 1,105
6 nix-config 1,083
7 nix-1p 1,005
8 nixpkgs-wayland 611
9 cargo2nix 464
10 nix-security-lab 393
11 nixpkgs-esp-dev 313
12 nix-docker 300
13 docker-nixpkgs 245
14 nixcrpkgs 154
15 ethereum.nix 148
16 neovim-flake 103
17 nixpkgs-terraform-providers-bin 59
18 stackage2nix 49
19 template-nixos 40
20 template-nix 32
21 dotnix 20
22 nixshells 20
23 niccup 13

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