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Open-source projects built with Nix

There are currently 157 open-source projects built with Nix, with a combined total of 215.5k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Nix.

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nix-shell
nix-shellloophp/nix-shell

A Nix flake that automatically builds custom PHP development environments with required extensions from composer.json.

17914Nix
8 days ago
Mintter
MintterMintterHypermedia/mintter

A decentralized knowledge collaboration application for open communities, powered by a knowledge graph and the Hypermedia protocol.

17012TypeScript
1 year ago
NüschtOS Search
NüschtOS SearchNuschtOS/search

A static-site generator for creating searchable documentation of NixOS configuration options without Elasticsearch.

16213TypeScript
10 days ago
ruby-nix
ruby-nixinscapist/ruby-nix

A Nix flake that generates reproducible Ruby/Bundler development environments for application development.

15317Nix
11 months ago
nix-prefetch
nix-prefetchmsteen/nix-prefetch

A Nix tool to prefetch and compute hashes for any fetcher function, enabling Trust-On-First-Use security for package sources.

14912Shell
3 years ago
npmlock2nix
npmlock2nixnix-community/npmlock2nix

A Nix library that converts npm-based packages into reproducible Nix derivations by parsing package.json and package-lock.json.

14846Nix
10 months ago
templates
templatesnix-community/templates

A community-managed collection of Nix flake templates for quickly bootstrapping projects.

14516Nix
1 month ago
tree-sitter-hcl
tree-sitter-hcltree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-hcl

A Tree-sitter grammar for parsing HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) syntax.

14531HCL
6 months ago
namaka
namakanix-community/namaka

A snapshot testing tool for Nix that automatically generates and manages test reference values.

1444Rust
2 days ago
angrr
angrrlinyinfeng/angrr

Automatically cleans up old Nix garbage collection roots based on configurable policies to free up disk space.

1393Rust
4 days ago
nixkell
nixkellpwm/nixkell

A Nix-based skeleton project for quickly setting up reproducible Haskell development environments.

12114Nix
1 year ago
lean4-nix
lean4-nixlenianiva/lean4-nix

Nix overlay and build tools for Lean 4, enabling reproducible builds and dependency management for Lean projects.

11817Nix
5 days ago
Napalm
Napalmnix-community/napalm

A Nix-based tool for building npm packages and serving as a lightweight npm registry.

11717Nix
2 years ago
nix-oci
nix-ociDauliac/nix-oci

A flake-parts module for declarative OCI container image management using Nix and nix2container.

1084Nix
7 days ago
opam2nix
opam2nixtimbertson/opam2nix

Generates Nix expressions from OPAM packages to build OCaml projects within the Nix ecosystem.

9328OCaml
1 year ago
npc
npcsamestep/npc

A CLI tool to access and bisect the history of Nixpkgs channels, helping debug broken package updates.

930Rust
2 days ago
composer2nix
composer2nixsvanderburg/composer2nix

Generate Nix expressions from PHP composer packages for deployment with the Nix package manager.

9226Nix
3 months ago
NebulaStream
NebulaStreamnebulastream/nebulastream

An end-to-end data management system for IoT, optimizing stream processing across cloud, edge, and sensor deployments.

8842C++
2 days ago
=nil; Crypto3
=nil; Crypto3NilFoundation/crypto3

A secure, fast, and modular C++17 cryptography suite with STL-like interfaces for implementing and extending cryptographic schemes.

8712C++
1 year ago
Hydras & Co.
Hydras & Co.coq-community/hydra-battles

A Coq-based project exploring hydra battles, ordinal numbers, addition chains, and Gödel's incompleteness theorem through formalized mathematics.

8312Coq
1 year ago
nix-phps
nix-phpsfossar/nix-phps

Nix package expressions for old PHP versions, enabling testing of legacy PHP environments in CI.

8324Nix
2 days ago
purs-nix
purs-nixpurs-nix/purs-nix

A Nix-based tool for managing PureScript projects with a custom package set and CLI.

8229Nix
5 months ago
sbt-derivation
sbt-derivationzaninime/sbt-derivation

A Nix library for building Scala sbt projects with reproducible, declarative builds.

7511Nix
2 years ago
nixpkgs-firefox-darwin
nixpkgs-firefox-darwinbandithedoge/nixpkgs-firefox-darwin

Nixpkgs overlay providing Firefox, Librewolf, Floorp, and Zen Browser binary builds for macOS.

7510Nix
1 day ago
nix-gleam
nix-gleamarnarg/nix-gleam

A Nix builder for Gleam applications that fetches dependencies from Hex using manifest.toml.

6713Nix
25 days ago
dada
dadasellout/dada

A total recursion scheme library for Dhall that separates recursion from business logic to enable simpler, modular, and terminating functions.

678Nix
1 month ago
libvulkan.lua
libvulkan.luaCapsAdmin/ffibuild

Generates LuaJIT FFI bindings from C headers, optionally using Nix for automatic build environment setup.

664Lua
8 years ago
flake-awesome-neovim-plugins
flake-awesome-neovim-pluginsm15a/flake-awesome-neovim-plugins

A Nix flake providing automatically updated packages for all plugins listed in the Awesome Neovim collection.

6411Nix
2 days ago
cosmos.nix
cosmos.nixinformalsystems/cosmos.nix

A Nix-based reproducible package set for Cosmos SDK, IBC, and CosmWasm blockchain projects.

6218Nix
10 months ago
Nix Notes
Nix Notesnoteed/nix-notes

A collection of short, commit-based notes about Nix and NixOS that build into a single virtual machine image.

613Nix
3 years ago
flemma.nvim
flemma.nvimFlemma-Dev/flemma.nvim

An AI workspace inside Neovim where every conversation is a plain text document you own, edit, and version.

573Lua
12 days ago
Coq Nix Toolbox
Coq Nix Toolboxcoq-community/coq-nix-toolbox

Nix helper scripts to automate local builds and CI for Coq projects, integrating with GitHub Actions and Cachix.

5622Nix
4 days ago
cl-nix-lite
cl-nix-litehraban/cl-nix-lite

A Nix-only module for building Common Lisp projects and managing their dependencies without QuickLisp.

548Nix
1 day ago
nixduino
nixduinoboredom101/nixduino

A Nix-based tool for building Arduino sketches as Nix derivations with support for multiple boards and libraries.

520Nix
4 years ago
nix-health
nix-healthjuspay/nix-health

A tool that checks the health of your Nix installation and allows per-project health check configuration via flake.nix.

484Rust
5 months ago
rust-nix-templater
rust-nix-templater90-008/rust-nix-templater

Generates Nix build and development environment files for Rust projects, supporting flakes, legacy Nix, and CI integration.

480Rust
3 years ago
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