Awesome Nix

A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community.

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.

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Contents

• Resources
  • Learning
  • Discovery
• Installation Media
• Channel History
• Deployment Tools
• Virtualisation
• Command-Line Tools
• Development
• DevOps
• Programming Languages
  • Arduino
  • Clojure
  • Crystal
  • Elm
  • Gleam
  • Haskell
  • Haxe
  • Julia
  • Lean
  • Node.js
  • OCaml
  • PHP
  • PureScript
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Zig
• NixOS Modules
• NixOS Configuration Editors
• Overlays
• Distributions
• Community

Resources

Learning

• Building a Rust service with Nix - An in-depth blog series about creating a Rust application with Nix.
• Explainix - Explain Nix syntax visually.
• How to Learn Nix - It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation.
• Nix - A One Pager - A one page introduction to the Nix language.
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition - A modern crash-course to using Nix features, Flakes, and developing with Nix.
• Nix in 100 Seconds - A YouTube video from Fireship presenting Nix in 100 seconds.
• Nix Notes - A collection of short notes about Nix, each contributing to the same virtual machine image.
• Nix Pills - The best way to learn, with examples.
• Nix Shorts - A collection of short notes about how to use Nix, updated for Nix Flakes.
• Nix Starter Config - A few simple Nix Flake templates for getting started with NixOS + home-manager.
• nix.dev - An opinionated guide for developers about getting things done using the Nix ecosystem.
• NixOS & Flakes Book - An unofficial and opinionated NixOS & Flakes book for beginners.
• NixOS Asia Tutorial Series - A series of high-level tutorials on using Nix Flakes, NixOS, home-manager, etc.
• NixOS in Production - Free (pay-what-you-want) book in pdf format.
• Official Nix manual - Latest stable version of the official Nix manual, best used as reference guide. Receives updates when available.
• Official NixOS manual - Latest stable version of the official NixOS manual, mix of tutorial and reference guide. Receives updates when available.
• Official Nixpkgs manual - Latest stable version of the official Nixpkgs reference manual. Receives updates when available.
• Tour of Nix - An online interactive tutorial on Nix language constructs.
• Wombat's Book of Nix - A book-length introduction to Nix and flakes.
• Zero to Nix - A flake-centric guide to Nix and its concepts created by Determinate Systems to quickly onboard beginners.

Discovery

• Home Manager Option Search - Search through all 2000+ Home Manager options and read how to use them.

• Nix Package Versions - Find all versions of a package that were available in a channel and the revision you can download it from.