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
musnix - real-time audio modules for NixOS
nix-bundle - package Nix attributes into single-file executables.
nix-darwin - NixOS modules for Darwin
nix-user-chroot - install Nix as an unpriviliged user on any system
not-os - build a system firmware for embedded devices
styx - Static site generator in Nix expression language
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)
nixcloud-webservices - nixpkgs extension for web-related technologies
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
nix-bitcoin - Set of NixOS modules to install a bitcoin node with emphasis on security
bionix - manage and execute bioinformatics pipelines

Various tools built for working with the Nix Ecosystem:

nixpkgs-review - Review nixpkgs pull requests
nix-update - Swiss army knife for updating nix packages
nox - Tools to make Nix easier to use
nix-diff - Compare Nix derivations
niff - Compare two Nix expressions to determine what attributes changes
nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files
nix-delegate - Convenient utility for distributed Nix builds
nix-du - Find which gc-roots take disk space in a nix store
nix-info - Homebrew info querying for Nix
nix-upgrade-scripts - Tools for Nixpkgs maintainers to upgrade packages
nixops-manager - NixOps wrapper for Git repositories
narfuse - FUSE filesystem for mounting Nix archive (NAR) files as a virtual Nix store
nix-visualize - Visualize the dependencies of a given package
home-manager - System for managing a user environment using Nix
nixGl - A wrapper to run OpenGL applications outside of NixOS
nix-venient - A collection of convenient commands for working with nix/nixpkgs
niv - Painless dependencies for Nix projects
nix-bash-completions - Bash completion for nix* commands
userscan - Scans directories containing manually compiled programs and registers them with the Nix garbage collector
nixfmt - A formatter for Nix code

Operations tools for the Nix Ecosystem: