Applications

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

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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
ethereum.nix - A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules designed to make it easier to operate Ethereum related services and infrastructure

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
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
snowfall - Unified configuration for systems, packages, modules, shells, templates, and more with Nix Flakes.

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

nil - Nix Language server, an incremental analysis assistant for writing in Nix.

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

Package maintenance

nix-update - Swiss-knife for updating nix 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
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.

Nix Operations

Operations tools for the Nix Ecosystem:

Official

Hydra - Nix's official continuous integration and build system.
NixOps - Nix's official (but unmaintained) 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
lollypops - a parallel and stateles NixOS deployment tool
Morph - a NixOS deployment tool
Nixus - an experimental NixOS deployment tool
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

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)