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cachix/git-hooks.nix

Seamless integration of https://pre-commit.com git hooks with Nix.

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#nix #pre-commit

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-16
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 102 open

880

stars

Forks: 230
Commits: 1,265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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nix-community/lorri

Your project’s nix-env [maintainer=@Profpatsch,@nyarly]

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Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-04-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-14
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 24 open

879

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 1,192 commits
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utensils/mcp-nixos

MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol Server for NixOS resources

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Stack

Python pytest Vite Vue npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ai-assistant #ai-integration #ai-tools #anthropic #claude #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-10-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-20
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

872

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 463 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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snowfallorg/nix-software-center

A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages

Stack

Rust Cargo Meson

GitHub topics

#gtk4 #libadwaita #nix #nixos

Updated: 2026-04-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-08-26
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 59 open

860

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 100 commits
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saschagrunert/kubernix

Single dependency Kubernetes clusters for local testing, experimenting and development.

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#kubernetes #kubernetes-cluster #kubernetes-deployment #kubernetes-development #kubernetes-setup #nix

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-22
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

829

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 1,283 commits
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nix-community/robotnix

Build Android (AOSP) using Nix [maintainer=@cyclic-pentane]

Stack

Nix Cargo Meson

Updated: 2026-10-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-14
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 80 open

815

stars

Forks: 101
Commits: 2,188 commits
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nix-community/nurl

Generate Nix fetcher calls from URLs [maintainer=@figsoda]

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bitbucket #codeberg #crate #crates #fetch #git

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-12-29
History: 1 history point
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 18 open

801

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 958 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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astro/deadnix

Scan Nix files for dead code

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#nix #nix-flake #nix-lang #nixos #rnix #rust

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-05
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

794

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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pyproject-nix/uv2nix

Uv2nix - Ingest uv workspaces using Nix [maintainer=@adisbladis]

Stack

Nix PEP 517 uv

Updated: 2026-10-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-08-21
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

794

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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juspay/services-flake

NixOS-like services for Nix flakes [maintainer=@shivaraj-bh,@srid]

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#flake-parts #flakes #nix #services

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-19
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 58 open

780

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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nix-community/rnix-lsp

WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#lsp-server #nix

Updated: 2024-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-19
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

709

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor

A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations

Stack

Rust Cargo Meson

GitHub topics

#gtk4 #libadwaita #nixos

Updated: 2026-02-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-31
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 13 open

687

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 77 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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numtide/treefmt-nix

treefmt nix configuration

Stack

Nix CMake

GitHub topics

#flake-parts #nix #treefmt

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-23
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 90 open

662

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Mic92/nixpkgs-review

Review pull-requests on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

Stack

Python PEP 517

GitHub topics

#build-with-buildbot #hacktoberfest #managed-by-renovate

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

648

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 1,154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ican-group/haskell.nix

Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs

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Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#build-tool #hacktoberfest #haskell #infrastructure #nix #nix-expressions

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-06
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 85 open

634

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 4,496 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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snowfallorg/lib

Unified configuration for systems, packages, modules, shells, templates, and more with Nix Flakes.

Stack

Nix

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-08
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 46 open

627

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 96 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/nixpkgs-wayland

Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS. [maintainers=@colemickens, @Artturin]

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#nixos #nixpkgs #sway #tiling-window-manager #wayland #wlroots

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-24
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 56 open

625

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 11,768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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fort-nix/nix-bitcoin

A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#bitcoin #bitcoind #nix #nix-packages #nixops #nixos

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-13
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

614

stars

Forks: 156
Commits: 2,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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svanderburg/node2nix

Generate Nix expressions to build NPM packages

Stack

Nix Express npm

Updated: 2024-11-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 132 open

593

stars

Forks: 99
Commits: 277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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andir/npins

Nix dependency pinning. Very similar to Niv but has a few features that I personally wanted.

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-10-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 34 open

584

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla

Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.

Archived

Stack

Nix npm

GitHub topics

#mozilla-firefox #nix-overlay #rustlang

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-16
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

577

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 276 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cynicsketch/nix-mineral

Conveniently and reasonably harden NixOS.

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#hardening #linux #nix #nixos #privacy #security

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-05-10
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 37 open

576

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 736 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mitchellh/zig-overlay

Nix flake for the Zig compiler.

Stack

Nix

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

560

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 1,838 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus

Use Nix flakes without any fluff.

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#flake-utils-plus #nix #nix-flake #nix-flakes #nixos

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-13
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

545

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 323 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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hall/kubenix

Kubernetes management with Nix

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#helm #kube #kubectl #kubernetes #nix #nixos

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-11
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

529

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 489 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ibizaman/selfhostblocks

Modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices.

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#nix #nix-modules #self-hosted #server-management

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-12-17
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 135 open

515

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 1,364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/NixNG

A linux distribution based on Nix [maintainer=@MagicRB]

Stack

Nix

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-23
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 23 open

506

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 450 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Gabriella439/nix-diff

Explain why two Nix derivations differ

Stack

Haskell

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-30
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 15 open

504

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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divnix/std

A DevOps framework for the SDLC with the power of Nix and Flakes. Good for keeping deadlines!

AI dev

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#devops #nix #nix-flakes #sdlc

Updated: 2025-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-09
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 54 open

486

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

symphorien/nix-du

Visualise which gc-roots to delete to free some space in your nix store

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-25
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

484

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 313 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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