Resources

This article is an overview of resources available both within the NixOS community Wiki and elsewhere. For communication channels, support and information of contributing, see the community menu.

Wiki

The NixOS Wiki's core articles are divided into five article categories: discussions, for encyclopedic description, guides, for showing the user how to do stuff, tutorials intended to teach, cookbooks collecting a bag of tips and trips and reference material for the nitty gritty details. They are also divided by the six most prominent components of the Nix Ecosystem: NixOS, Nix, the Nix Language, Nixpkgs, NixOps and Hydra. The core articles of the Wiki correspond to one component and one category:

NixOS Wiki Resources

Category	NixOS	Nix	Nix Language	Nixpkgs	NixOps	Hydra
Discussion	NixOS	Nix	Nix Language	Nixpkgs	NixOps	Hydra
Guide	NixOS Guide	Nix Guide	Nix Language Guide	Nixpkgs Guide	NixOps Guide	Hydra Guide
Tutorial	NixOS Tutorial	Nix Tutorial	Nix Language Tutorial	Nixpkgs Tutorial	NixOps Tutorial	Hydra Tutorial
Cookbook	NixOS Cookbook	Nix Cookbook	Nix Language Cookbook	Nixpkgs Cookbook	NixOps Cookbook	Hydra Cookbook
Reference	NixOS Reference	Nix Reference	Nix Language Reference	Nixpkgs Reference	NixOps Reference	Hydra Reference

The goal is to eventually have strong articles for every entry of this table, but initial efforts will target the first row and first column.

Documentation

• Nix Pills - series of blog post about Nix/Nixpkgs internals
• Official nix Manual
• Official NixOS Manual
• Official Nixpkgs Manual

News

• planet.nixos.org - Aggregator for blogs related to nix/nixOS
• NixOS Weekly
• NixOS Discourse

Interactive websites

• NixOS Packages Search - full-text search through all packages of NixOS
• NixOS Option Search - full-text search through all options of NixOS
• NixOS Code Search - full-text search through NixOS related packages
• A tour of nix - interactive Nix tutorial
• Nix Channel Status - when nixpkgs/nixos channels were updated last
• Hydra

Tutorials

• Tutorial Introduction to Nix - an introduction focused on the use of shell environments, for Python and with links to R versions as well
• Interactive Tour of Nix - an interactive tutorial of the Nix Expression Language by Joachim Schiele and Paul Seitz
• Nix shell workshop
• Scrive workshop - nix language and packaging workshop

Cookbooks

• Domen's Nix Cookbook - A community initiative, by Domen Kožar

Talks

• NixCon 2020 Talks
• NixCon 2019 Talks
• NixCon 2018 Talks
• NixCon 2017 Talks
• NixCon 2015 Talks produced and hosted by the CCC Video Operation Center