Applications: Difference between revisions

This article lists applications built for and with Nix; it constitutes a listing of what may be called the '''''Extended Nix Ecosystem''''' (see [[Special:MyLanguage/Nix Ecosystem|Nix Ecosystem]] for the Core Nix Ecosystem).

If you are looking for Linux software/applications you should look at [[:Category:Software|Software]].

* [https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os not-os] - build a system firmware for embedded devices

* [https://github.com/styx-static/styx styx] - Static site generator in Nix expression language

* [https://github.com/PapenfussLab/bionix bionix] - manage and execute bioinformatics pipelines

* [https://nix-community.github.io/ethereum.nix/ ethereum.nix] - A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules designed to make it easier to operate Ethereum related services and infrastructure

* [https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver nixos-mailserver] - A complete and Simple NixOS Mailserver

* [https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin nix-darwin] - NixOS modules for Darwin

* [https://github.com/musnix/musnix musnix] - real-time audio modules for NixOS

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL nixGl] - A wrapper to run OpenGL applications outside of NixOS

* [https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager home-manager] - System for managing a user environment using Nix

* [https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager plasma-manager] - manage KDE Plasma with Home-manager

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim Nixvim] - A Neovim distribution built around Nix modules

* [https://github.com/NotAShelf/nvf nvf] - Modular, extensible and portable Neovim configuration framework

* [https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs deploy-rs] - Nix flake deployment tool

* [https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus flake-utils-plus] - Flake templates and helper library. Extension of below

* [https://github.com/numtide/flake-utils flake-utils] - Set of flake-building utility functions

* [https://github.com/hercules-ci/flake-parts flake-parts] - Simplify Nix Flakes with the module system  

* [https://snowfall.org/ snowfall] - Unified configuration for systems, packages, modules, shells, templates, and more with Nix Flakes.  

* [https://github.com/taktoa/narfuse narfuse] - FUSE filesystem for mounting Nix archive (NAR) files as a virtual Nix store

* [https://github.com/awakesecurity/nix-delegate nix-delegate] - Convenient utility for distributed Nix builds

* [https://github.com/Gabriel439/nix-diff nix-diff] - Compare Nix derivations

* [https://github.com/FRidh/niff niff] - Compare two Nix expressions to determine what attributes changes

* [https://khumba.net/projects/nvd/ nvd] - Nix/NixOS package version diff tool

* [https://github.com/isabelroses/lix-diff lix-diff] - Nix/NixOS closure diffing tool

* [https://github.com/utdemir/nix-tree nix-tree] - Interactive dependency browser for Nix derivations

* [https://github.com/craigmbooth/nix-visualize nix-visualize] - Visualize the dependencies of a given package as a graph

* [https://github.com/andir/npins npins] - Simple tool for handling different types of dependencies in a Nix project

* [https://github.com/nmattia/niv niv] - Painless dependencies for Nix projects

* [https://nixtamal.toast.al/ Nixtamal] - Fulfilling input pinning for Nix

* [https://github.com/oxalica/nil nil] - Nix language server, an incremental analysis assistant for writing in Nix

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nixd nixd] - Nix language server, newer than nil, with more features

* [https://github.com/astro/deadnix deadnix] - Removes unused code from .nix files

* [https://github.com/oppiliappan/statix statix] - Linter and suggestions for the nix programming language

* [https://github.com/inclyc/nixf-diagnose nixf-diagnose] - Linter - CLI wrapper around nixf-tidy (part of the [https://github.com/nix-community/nixd nixd] project)

* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt nixfmt] - The official formatter for Nix code

* [https://github.com/kamadorueda/alejandra alejandra] - Unofficial Nix code formatter

* [https://github.com/Mic92/nix-update/ nix-update] - Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.  

* [https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs-review nixpkgs-review] - Review nixpkgs pull requests

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nix-init nix-init] - Generate Nix packages from URLs

* [https://github.com/jtojnar/nixpkgs-hammering nixpkgs-hammering] - Enforce a set of nit-picky rules that aim to point out and explain common mistakes in nixpkgs package pull requests

* [https://github.com/edolstra/dwarffs dwarffs] - Fetches DWARF debug info files for gdb automatically from cache.nixos.org

* [https://github.com/symphorien/nixseparatedebuginfod nixseparatedebuginfod] - Fetches debug symbols and source files for debuginfod-capables tools like gdb

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index nix-index] - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files

* [https://github.com/symphorien/nix-du nix-du] - Find which gc-roots take disk space in a nix store

* [https://github.com/nix-hackers/nix-info nix-info] - Homebrew info querying for Nix

* [https://github.com/flyingcircusio/userscan userscan] - Scans directories containing manually compiled programs and registers them with the Nix garbage collector

* [https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli nix-search-cli] - CLI for searching packages on search.nixos.org

* [https://github.com/hedning/nix-bash-completions nix-bash-completions] - Bash completion for <code>nix*</code> commands

* [https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell nixos-shell (Mic92)] - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell (like vagrant)

* [https://github.com/chrisfarms/nixos-shell nixos-shell (chrisfarms)] - like nix-shell, but for NixOS modules. Buildable version can be found [https://github.com/wavewave/nixos-shell/tree/submodule in this fork]

* [https://github.com/erikarvstedt/extra-container extra-container] - Run declarative NixOS containers from the command line. Similar to nixos-shell (chrisfarms)

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle nix-bundle] - package Nix attributes into single-file executables

* [https://github.com/lucabrunox/nix-user-chroot nix-user-chroot] - install Nix as an unpriviliged user on any system

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nh nh] - a rewrite of nixos-rebuild featuring diffs with nvd and a tree of builds with nix-output-manager, as well as other quality of life features such as package searching

* [https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-cli nixos-cli] - an all-in-one tool to manage any NixOS installation with ease, combining the features of all the `nixos-*` commands.   

* [https://github.com/nixos/hydra Hydra] - Nix's official continuous integration and build system

* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixops NixOps] - Nix's official (but unmaintained) tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or the cloud

* [https://github.com/rapenne-s/bento Bento] - a NixOS fleet manager supporting remote systems not up 24/7

* [https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena colmena] - a NixOS deployment tool

* [https://github.com/nlewo/comin comin] - A deployment tool to continuously pull from Git repositories

* [https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs deploy-rs] - a simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool

* [[Special:MyLanguage/krops|krops]] - a lightweight toolkit to deploy NixOS systems, remotely or locally

* [https://github.com/pinpox/lollypops lollypops] - a parallel and stateless NixOS deployment tool

* [https://github.com/DBCDK/morph Morph] - a NixOS deployment tool

* [https://github.com/MatthewCroughan/nixinate Nixinate] - A Nix flake library to provide app outputs for managing existing NixOS hosts over SSH

* [https://github.com/Infinisil/nixus Nixus] - an experimental NixOS deployment tool

* [https://github.com/forallsys/wire wire] - A tool to deploy NixOS systems. Its usage is inspired by colmena however it is not a fork.

* [https://github.com/hercules-ci/arion Arion] - configure Docker Compose with Nix modules

* [https://nixery.dev Nixery ] - ad-hoc container images from Nix

* [https://github.com/xtruder/kubenix kubenix] - Kubernetes resource builder written in Nix

* [https://github.com/xtruder/nix-kubernetes nix-kubernetes] - Kubernetes deployment manager written in nix

* [https://github.com/haskell-nix/hnix hnix] (haskell, parser & evaluator)

* [https://github.com/nix-community/rnix-parser rnix] (rust, parser)

* [https://github.com/orivej/go-nix go-nix] (go, parser & nix-compatible file hasher)

* [https://github.com/NixOS/nix-idea/tree/master/src/main/java/org/nixos/idea/lang nix-idea] (java, parser)

* [https://lix.systems/ lix] (c++, fork of [https://github.com/NixOS/nix NixOS/nix])

* [https://snix.dev/ snix] (rust, cli & evaluator & store)

None of the services are required to use Nix. None of these services are affiliated with the [[Special:MyLanguage/NixOS Foundation|NixOS Foundation]].

; [https://cachix.org Cachix]: binary caches as a service. Free for public caches, subscription for private token-protected caches.

; [https://hercules-ci.com Hercules CI]: simplify your CI setup with stateless build agents. Free for open source, per-user subscription for private repositories.

; [https://garnix.io Garnix]: nix CI, caching (open beta) and cloud hosting (private alpha) based on Nix as a service. Currently free, but offers commerical plans.

; [https://nixbuild.net/ nixbuild.net]: remote Nix builders as a service for x86_64 and AArch64. Pay-per-use.

* [https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix awesome-nix]

* [[Special:MyLanguage/Language-specific package helpers|Language-specific package helpers]]

* [[Special:MyLanguage/Alternative Package Sets|Alternative Package Sets]]

* [[Special:MyLanguage/Configuration Collection|Get inspiration from other peoples NixOS configuration]]

* [https://search.nixos.org/packages NixOS Packages Search] for searching through NixOS packages