😎 A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community [maintainer=@cyntheticfox]
Home Page: https://nix-community.github.io/awesome-nix/
License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Checking https://libera.chat/ again, it looks like they've built a web client now. The current implementation in the README.md is kinda broken, so maybe update the link to https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest?#nixos?
Hi!
I have been using NixOS for a long time and feel relatively "plugged in", yet I'm constantly finding things in other Nix users's configuration repos.
Is there interest in maintaining a list of those repos here?
Bonus, we could call out flakes-enabled repos which are somewhat hard to find now and useful for folks looking to test out flakes.
This is a project of mine that aims to replace https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/ because that one does not seem updated.
It's available at https://history.nix-packages.com
Being able to create a new project and immediately add it to an "awesome-list" is problematic. There's not enough time to show that the project will be maintained. I'm proposing adding a "30-day" rule for the project like on https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs/blob/main/contributing.md.
I'd like some feedback on this for sure though. Is 30 days too long? Too short? Unnecessary?
Hello, I have created two badges for projects to show off their presence on Nixpkgs.
I was wondering if they could be included on awesome-nix.
Here are them down below:
This project's links:
NixOS Discourse Thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-package-badges/
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/dch82/Nixpkgs-Badges/
Thanks!
I realize this could be viewed as shameless self promotion but anyway, I've created nixkite - https://github.com/johnae/nixkite which is a Nix module for generating buildkite pipelines... a bit opinionated in that it only supports DAG pipelines (eg. the relatively new functionality on buildkite).
I'm using it myself in https://github.com/johnae/nixos-configuration (and other private repos as well).
Maybe it is worthy of including on this list? It likely doesn't have any users at the moment other than me.
We have GitHub actions to enforce basic "awesome-list" style via awesome-lint and a link checker via lychee, but I currently still have to manually check every time whether a PR has the lists under subheadings in alphabetical order.
It might require a bit of time and me actually bothering to learn TypeScript/Node.js, but I think an alphabetization checker would be valuable.
Imo these tools deserve to be listed next to nixops.
Morph is a tool for managing existing NixOS hosts - basically a fancy wrapper around
nix-build,nix copy,nix-env,/nix/store/.../bin/switch-to-configuration,scpand more. Morph supports updating multiple hosts in a row, and with support for health checks makes it fairly safe to do so.
krops (krebs ops)
krops is a lightweigt toolkit to deploy NixOS systems, remotely or locally.
Some Features
- store your secrets in password store
- build your system remotely
- minimal overhead (it's basically just nixos-rebuild switch!)
- run from custom nixpkgs branch/checkout/fork
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
There are some requirements: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/master/contributing.md
There's a list of links to High Performance Computing - related things here: https://github.com/freuk/awesome-nix-hpc .
Should I include a link or rather copy over some of that the content in a PR?
tl;dr: Issues 'templates' (forms) -> GH Actions -> PR
Objective: reduce contribution friction
https://stefanbuck.com/blog/codeless-contributions-with-github-issue-forms
where support means both
this is especially problematic where there are multiple contenders for a use case.
related: NixOS/foundation#39 (decide what is a project in the Nix ecosystem)
https://github.com/pta2002/nixvim
I'm unsure in what section to put this, but I feel like this belongs here
cc: @pta2002
The name of this list technically excludes some awesome stuff like nix-darwin and kubenix. GitHub handles renames quite well, so I think it's not too late!
awesome-nixos -> awesome-nix
Some of the sections (like Deployment Tools, Command-line Tools, and Development) are getting rather large. Might be worthwhile to look at other Awesome lists and see about recategorizing some of the projects.
Add pip2nix?
and pypi2nix is depreciated
In the wiki we have the following article that has some overlaps with this project:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Applications
This issue is just a reminder in case the awesome list lacks some important items.
When attempting to select the method used with tab it only comes up with option 0 on zsh. When I try typing in another option it just says hit tab to see options. The only thing I can do is hit enter. Typing any number 0-5 does nothing but tell me to hit tab.
It'll be awesome to have this here 😃
The Contributing Guidelines include to "keep entries sorts alphabetically by the title", but I noticed for some sections like Development, they aren't ordered.
It's a pretty simple fix, so I can go ahead and create a PR for it when I get a moment to breathe today.
I did a thing [1] using the nixpkgs module system to generate custom configurations for VSCode, I am looking to do more of these things like Firefox, Chrome and Neovim.
Should be added a new section for content like this?
I'm considering adding an "Official" section before the "Resources" one, kind of like that on the Node.js Awesome list. This would probably include just the NixOS website, a link to the "learn" page as "Documentation", a link to Nix and/or Nixpkgs, and maybe a link to the Discourse?
Unsure as to what would be best included in such, and what can be left out. I know at a maximum it would be:
That list feels a little long to put though, so it might be better to just have:
And keep the rest distributed into their corresponding sections.
I randomly found devenv https://github.com/cachix/devenv and it seems a really stable and supported project. I am surprised that the project is not listed in this repo.
Container registry which transparently builds images using the Nix package manager
many summaries currently contain either value judgement ("simple", "awesome", "quickly", "better") or nondescript statements ("Beat your package expressions into a shape").
that does not help readers figure out how and why a recommendation may be useful to them.
summaries should consistently and factually state for every resource
related: #123
there are multiple locations which overlap in serving the overview function for different topics:
proposal to increase centralization and ease curation:
examples:
nix commandsbuiltins and pkgs.libnixpkgs patterns and idiomsrelated: NixOS/nixpkgs#121403 (Bring the Haskell documentation back into nixpkgs)
This is an Issue to track failing URLs with comments generated by the Lychee link checker.
The resource descriptions could use some cleaning-up in the formatting and consistency, including ensuring consistent capitalization of Nix/NixOS/Nixpkgs, making commands into code blocks or having the "preformatted" style via backticks (a.k.a. grave symbols), and validating that list item names match the project name in capitalization and formatting.
May help with #1 in the Awesome list approval process, but is not guaranteed, and may have a lifetime shorter or longer than that issue.
I can write most of the pull requests for this, but contributions are always welcome.
I'll be using this issue to track the work.
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