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Top 9 Nix Template Projects
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nix-starter-configs
Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
This doesn't mirror my experience at all. I think the biggest challenge facing NixOS is the learning curve. There's a lot thrown at you from the start, and as you start to factor your configuration into separate modules, there's a lot of complexity you have to unpack.
I've since migrated to a flake-based setup with machine-based variations (for my laptop and desktop), including easily swappable desktop environments. At a whim, I can switch between sway, hyprland, and gnome. This was mostly a result of me exploring/tweaking these without wanting to discard the configs; I always end up coming back to re-explore tiling WMs.
My experience through all of this has been great. I've even done a full re-install on both machines when the xz vulnerability was discovered and the process was effortless. That includes lanzaboote for SecureBoot, LUKS, and out-of-tree git-based flake builds for custom applications I build from source.
The one thing I found really helpful when starting with flakes was this repo that includes starter configs to help flatten that initial curve: https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/tree/main
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InfluxDB
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- Check in CI (as Nix flake check)
Example repo: https://github.com/srid/haskell-template
The pre-commit configuration: https://github.com/srid/haskell-template/blob/master/nix/mod...
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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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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
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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 Template discussion
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haskell.nix external dependency
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Using current flake setup with WSL2
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plutus-starter VS nix-templates - a user suggested alternative
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Template projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | nix-starter-configs | 3,041 |
| 2 | .dots | 253 |
| 3 | haskell-template | 244 |
| 4 | templates | 83 |
| 5 | mach-nix-template | 70 |
| 6 | template-nixos | 38 |
| 7 | template-nix | 31 |
| 8 | nix-templates | 17 |
| 9 | haskell-template | 5 |
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