Applications

This article lists applications built for and with Nix; it constitutes a listing of what may be called the Extended Nix Ecosystem.

Nix Derivatives

Various applications built on top of Nix:

fractalide - Reusable Reproducible Composable Software
not-os - build a system firmware for embedded devices

Built with Nix

Projects which leverage Nix.

nix-bitcoin - Set of NixOS modules to install a bitcoin node with emphasis on security
styx - Static site generator in Nix expression language
bionix - manage and execute bioinformatics pipelines

Nix Platform

Projects which add support (e.g. for extra platforms or major capabilities) to Nix.

nix-darwin - NixOS modules for Darwin
musnix - real-time audio modules for NixOS
nixGl - A wrapper to run OpenGL applications outside of NixOS

Nix Tooling

Various tools built for working with the Nix Ecosystem (e.g. enhancements or alternatives to core Nix tools).

General configuration

home-manager - System for managing a user environment using Nix

Flakes

dotfiles - Popular flake-based NixOS configuration template. Has hey management command
deploy-rs - Nix flake deployment tool
~~digga - Flake utility library, based on flake-utils-plus~~(deprecated)
flake-utils-plus - Flake templates and helper library. Extension of below
flake-utils - Set of flake-building utility functions
flake-parts - Simplify Nix Flakes with the module system

Toolboxes

nox - Tools to make Nix easier to use
nix-update - Swiss army knife for updating nix packages
nix-venient - A collection of convenient commands for working with nix/nixpkgs

Clustering

nix-delegate - Convenient utility for distributed Nix builds

Comparison

nix-diff - Compare Nix derivations
niff - Compare two Nix expressions to determine what attributes changes

Dependencies

nix-visualize - Visualize the dependencies of a given package
niv - Painless dependencies for Nix projects

Nix lang comprehension

rnix-lsp - A language server which can provide in your text editor...
- Syntax checking, completion, renaming, go to definition, code formatting (with nixpkgs-fmt), etc.
- Supported in vim/neovim, Emacs, VSCode, Kakoune
statix - Linter and suggestions for the nix programming language
nixfmt - A formatter for Nix code
nixpkgs-fmt - Nix code formatter for nixpkgs
deadnix - Removes unused code from .nix files
nil - Nix Language server, an incremental analysis assistent for writing in Nix.

Package maintenance

nix-upgrade-scripts - Tools for Nixpkgs maintainers to upgrade packages
nixpkgs-review - Review nixpkgs pull requests

Debugging

dwarffs - Fetches DWARF debug info files for gdb automatically from cache.nixos.org
nixseparatedebuginfod - Fetches debug symbols and source files for debuginfod-capables tools like gdb

Search

nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files
nix-du - Find which gc-roots take disk space in a nix store
nix-info - Homebrew info querying for Nix
userscan - Scans directories containing manually compiled programs and registers them with the Nix garbage collector

Shell

nix-bash-completions - Bash completion for nix* commands
nixos-shell (Mic92) - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell (like vagrant)
nixos-shell (chrisfarms) - like nix-shell, but for NixOS modules. Buildable version can be found in this fork
extra-container - Run declarative NixOS containers from the command line. Similar to nixos-shell (chrisfarms)

Other

nix-bundle - package Nix attributes into single-file executables.
nix-user-chroot - install Nix as an unpriviliged user on any system

Nix Operations

Operations tools for the Nix Ecosystem:

Official

Hydra - Nix's official continuous integration and build system.
NixOps - Nix's official tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or the cloud.

Deployment

colmena - a NixOS deployment tool
deploy-rs - a simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool
Morph - a NixOS deployment tool
Nixus - an experimental NixOS deployment tool
nixcloud-webservices - nixpkgs extension for web-related technologies
Bento - a NixOS fleet manager supporting remote systems not up 24/7

Docker

Arion - configure Docker Compose with Nix modules
Nixery - ad-hoc container images from Nix

Kubernetes

kubenix - Kubernetes resource builder written in Nix
nix-kubernetes - Kubernetes deployment manager written in nix

Microservices

Disnix - a microservice architecture built with Nix.

NixOps related

nixops-manager - NixOps wrapper for Git repositories
krops - a stateless alternative to nixops with improved secret management.
morph - a stateless alternative to nixops, deployment files mostly compatible to nixops's none backend

Alternative nix implementations & parser

hnix (haskell, parser & evaluator)
rnix (rust, parser)
go-nix (go, parser & nix-compatible file hasher)
nix-idea (java, parser)

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