nix-community
Nix community projects Joined Oct 2017 View on GitHub
- Stars
- 96,226
- across 192 public repos
- Rank
- #235
- of 94,827 organizations, top 0.2%
- Down 7 places this week
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,436 | Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@khaneliman, @rycee] | Nix | 10,514 |
| 11,509 | 😎 A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community [maintainer=@cyntheticfox] | 5,543 | |
| 18,689 | Install NixOS everywhere via SSH [maintainers=@Mic92 @Lassulus @phaer @Enzime @a-kenji] | Shell | 3,575 |
| 19,589 | Declarative disk partitioning and formatting using nix [maintainers=@Lassulus @Enzime @iFreilicht @Mic92 @phaer] | Nix | 3,427 |
| 19,982 | Yet another Nix CLI helper. [Maintainers=@NotAShelf, @faukah] | Rust | 3,361 |
| 21,312 | NixOS on WSL [maintainer=@nzbr] | Nix | 3,158 |
| 22,674 | Configure Neovim with Nix! [maintainers=@GaetanLepage, @traxys, @mattsturgeon, @khaneliman] | Nix | 2,981 |
| 24,089 | A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10] | Shell | 2,817 |
| 27,471 | Theming framework for NixOS, Home Manager, nix-darwin, and Nix-on-Droid [maintainers=@0xda157, @danth, @trueNAHO] | Nix | 2,469 |
| 27,848 | A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool [maintainer=@stepbrobd, @NickCao, @zhaofengli] | Rust | 2,440 |
| 28,472 | Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus] | Nix | 2,388 |
| 30,801 | Nix-enabled environment for your Android device. [maintainers=@t184256] | Nix | 2,207 |
| 34,237 | Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Pandapip1] | Python | 1,989 |
| 35,089 | Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz] | Nix | 1,943 |
| 35,431 | Secure Boot & Measured Boot for NixOS [maintainers=@blitz @raitobezarius @nikstur] | Rust | 1,925 |
| 37,861 | Comma runs software without installing it. [maintainers=@Artturin,@burke,@DavHau] | Rust | 1,805 |
| 39,317 | Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS [maintainer=@Mic92] | Rust | 1,742 |
| 40,025 | Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka] | Nix | 1,713 |
| 45,302 | Nix language server, based on nix libraries [maintainer=@inclyc,@takeokunn,@Aleksanaa] | C++ | 1,511 |
| 45,869 | Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more [maintainer=@figsoda] | Rust | 1,493 |
| 53,585 | Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau] | Nix | 1,270 |
| 54,146 | Manage KDE Plasma with Home Manager [maintainer=@HeitorAugustoLN] | Nix | 1,256 |
| 59,223 | Rust toolchains and rust-analyzer nightly for Nix [maintainers=@figsoda, @eureka-cpu] | Nix | 1,138 |
| 61,777 | An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel [maintainer=@artemist,@rhelmot] | Nix | 1,084 |
| 63,865 | A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou] | Nix | 1,045 |
| 64,702 | NixOS profiles for servers [maintainer=@numtide] | Nix | 1,030 |
| 65,379 | Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly. | Nix | 1,017 |
| 71,308 | Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=] | Nix | 923 |
| 74,219 | Vulnerability (CVE) scanner for Nix/NixOS [maintainer=@henrirosten] | Python | 884 |
| 74,720 | Your project’s nix-env [maintainer=@Profpatsch,@nyarly] | Go | 878 |
| 76,132 | Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere! [maintainer=@matthewbauer, @Artturin] | Nix | 861 |
| 79,972 | Build Android (AOSP) using Nix [maintainer=@cyclic-pentane] | Nix | 817 |
| 81,206 | Generate Nix fetcher calls from URLs [maintainer=@figsoda] | Rust | 804 |
| 89,118 | Declarative hardware configuration for NixOS [maintainer=@brianmcgee,@Mic92] | Go | 728 |
| 91,275 | WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse] | Rust | 709 |
| 98,565 | Nix binary cache implemented in rust (maintainer: @Mic92) | Rust | 651 |
| 99,892 | Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis] | Nix | 642 |
| 101,649 | Weekly updated nix-index database [maintainer=@Mic92] | Nix | 630 |
| 102,123 | Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS. [maintainers=@colemickens, @Artturin] | Nix | 627 |
| 105,660 | https://noogle.dev - nix function exploring. [maintainer=@hsjobeki] | Nix | 604 |
| 113,239 | Visual Studio Code Server support in NixOS | Nix | 560 |
| 114,538 | Nix code formatter for nixpkgs [maintainer=@zimbatm] | Rust | 553 |
| 119,700 | crate2nix builds your cargo-based rust project crate-by-crate with nix | Nix | 527 |
| 120,325 | Nix language support for VSCode editor [maintainer: @jnoortheen] | TypeScript | 524 |
| 123,469 | Library for using modules to wrap packages with configuration directly, and a collection of pre-built wrapper modules! [maintainer=@BirdeeHub] | Nix | 509 |
| 124,126 | A linux distribution based on Nix [maintainer=@MagicRB] | Nix | 506 |
| 138,173 | Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92] | Rust | 448 |
| 145,302 | A set of Terraform modules that are designed to deploy NixOS [maintainer=@adrian-gierakowski] | HCL | 423 |
| 145,946 | Automatically build (netboot) images for NixOS [maintainer=@Mic92] | Rust | 421 |
| 146,551 | Filesystem-based module system for Nix [maintainer=@figsoda] | Nix | 419 |
| 147,151 | [maintainer=@GaetanLepage, @willruggiano] | Nix | 417 |
| 147,815 | Framework for simplifying flake setup [maintainer=@accelbread] | Nix | 415 |
| 148,471 | ❄️ A dead simple Nix flake template repository for Neovim derivations [maintainer=@mrcjkb] | Lua | 413 |
| 152,791 | Nix expressions for VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX extensions [maintainers=@deemp, @ameertaweel] | Haskell | 400 |
| 154,119 | A unified NixOS tooling replacement for nixos-* utilities [maintainers=@water-sucks,@Sporif] | Go | 396 |
| 155,835 | NixOS for Android Terminal (Android Virtualization Framework) [maintainers=@mkg20001] | Nix | 391 |
| 160,907 | Nix tooling to enable declarative management of non-volatile system state. [maintainer=@WilliButz] | Nix | 377 |
| 162,446 | Trustix: Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches [maintainer=@adisbladis] | Go | 373 |
| 178,602 | NixOS Vagrant boxes [maintainer=@ifurther] | HCL | 335 |
| 187,834 | A ranger-like flake.lock viewer [maintainer=@figsoda] | Rust | 316 |
| 191,522 | Repository to maintain out-of-tree shell.nix files (maintainer=@mic92) | Nix | 309 |
| 192,106 | Convert applications using Go modules to Nix expressions [maintainer=@marcusramberg] | Nix | 308 |
| 192,658 | NixOS modules to aid in configuring NixOS for raspberry pi products | Nix | 307 |
| 195,939 | Convert dconf files (e.g. GNOME Shell) to Nix, as expected by Home Manager [maintainer=@jtojnar] | Nix | 301 |
| 199,825 | A nixos module to make buildbot a proper Nix-CI [maintainer=@Mic92,@MagicRB] | Python | 294 |
| 206,493 | ZSH Completions for Nix | Shell | 283 |
| 227,154 | docker images from nixpkgs [maintainer=@zimbatm] | Nix | 253 |
| 227,889 | A set of useful Emacs modes and functions for users of Nix and Nix OS. | Emacs Lisp | 252 |
| 233,403 | Freeze pip-installable packages into Nix expressions [maintainer=@datakurre] | Python | 245 |
| 234,986 | Nix grammar for tree-sitter [maintainer=@cstrahan] | JavaScript | 243 |
| 269,298 | A repository of NUR that combines all repositories [maintainer=@Pandapip1] | Nix | 206 |
| 277,190 | A Nix DSL for DNS zone files [maintainers=@raitobezarius @kirelagin @Tom-Hubrecht] | Nix | 199 |
| 286,750 | Abandoned! Generate Nix expressions for Python packages | Python | 191 |
| 290,552 | check hydra for the build status of a package [maintainer=@makefu,@Artturin,@bryango] | Rust | 188 |
| 291,819 | Nix flake with package, NixOS module and VM test for authentik. Alternative deployment mode to the official docker-compose approach. No official support by authentik [maintainers=@ma27] | Nix | 187 |
| 298,437 | Cache Nix Store in GitHub Actions to speed up workflows [maintainer=@deemp] | TypeScript | 182 |
| 301,221 | Example on how to nixify a project [maintainer=@Rizary] | Nix | 180 |
| 304,018 | nix-community infrastructure [maintainer=@zowoq] | Nix | 178 |
| 304,018 | A series of NixOS modules to be used in conjunction with https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-facter [maintainer=@brianmcgee,@Mic92] | Nix | 178 |
| 306,866 | A fast semantic linter for Nix using tree-sitter 🌳 + ❄️. [maintainers=@Artturin,@siraben] | Rust | 176 |
| 308,360 | Tool to generate documentation for Nix library functions [maintainer=@hsjobeki] | Rust | 175 |
| 315,986 | Generate a nix expression to build bun packages - similar to node2nix or yarn2nix [maintainer=@baileylu121] | Nix | 170 |
| 328,930 | Elements of Nix re-implemented as Go libraries [maintainer=@flokli] | Go | 162 |
| 332,301 | A template for NUR repositories: [maintainer=@fgaz] | Nix | 160 |
| 332,301 | collection of one-shot scripts to install NixOS on various server hosters and other hardware. [maintainer=@happysalada] | Shell | 160 |
| 332,301 | Nix flake templates managed by the community [maintainer=@IogaMaster] | Nix | 160 |
| 332,301 | This is a collection of helm charts in a nix-digestable format. [maintainers=@farcaller, @e1senh0rn] | Python | 160 |
| 337,460 | A library to turn Nix Flake attribute sets into Github Actions matrices [maintainer=@adisbladis] | Nix | 157 |
| 339,268 | Nix packages and NixOS modules for the Ethereum ecosystem. [maintainers=@aldoborrero,@brianmcgee,@selfuryon,@bbjubjub2494] | Nix | 156 |
| 341,116 | Generate configuration files using Nix [maintainer=@jmgilman] | Nix | 155 |
| 352,327 | Install NvChad on Nix-based system [maintainer=@Bot-wxt1221, @MOIS3Y] | Nix | 149 |
| 356,174 | nixify npm based packages [maintainer=@andir] | Nix | 147 |
| 360,099 | Snapshot testing for Nix based on haumea [maintainer=@figsoda] | Rust | 145 |
| 362,233 | Unit testing for Nix code [maintainer=@adisbladis] | C++ | 144 |
| 362,233 | Nix overlay for VSCode | Rust | 144 |
| 370,617 | Nix installers for legacy distributions (rpm & deb & pacman) [maintainer=@adisbladis] | Nix | 140 |
| 377,305 | Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS [maintainer=@zhaofengli @Mic92] | Rust | 137 |
| 381,787 | An easy to use Linux builder for macOS [maintainer=@nicknovitski] | Nix | 135 |
| 398,367 | Convert the dependencies in `build.zig.zon` to a Nix expression [maintainer=@figsoda] | Zig | 128 |
| 400,911 | Generate nix expressions from a yarn.lock file [maintainer=???] | Nix | 127 |
Among 94,827 organizations
63k–100k stars: 206 organizations, including nix-community
Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale
Where the stars are
Languages
- Nix 53.6k stars, 56% · 72 repos
- Rust 17.8k stars, 19% · 22 repos
- Shell 6.8k stars, 7% · 4 repos
- Python 3.9k stars, 4% · 8 repos
- Go 2.5k stars, 3% · 5 repos
- C++ 1.7k stars, 2% · 2 repos
- TypeScript 826 stars, 1% · 3 repos
- HCL 758 stars, 1% · 2 repos
and 7 more languages
When they were made
100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2012 and 2025
Quick stats
- Next rank
- +258 stars to reach #234
- Next milestone
- +94,543 stars to reach the top 0.1%
- Public repos
- 192, 128 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 27 over 1k stars, 1 over 10k stars
- Top repo
- home-manager, #5,436 of all repos, 11% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 1,020 stars from repos under 50