# nix-community/awesome-nix

😎 A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community [maintainer=@cyntheticfox]

Repository: https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-nix
Homepage: https://nix-community.github.io/awesome-nix/
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: awesome-list, awesome, lists, nix, nixos
Last push: 2026-07-23T17:30:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2667, "days_push": 41, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5416, forks 199 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:17.815689+00:00)

## What it is
A curated list of the best resources in the Nix and NixOS community, covering learning materials, tools, deployment utilities, and language-specific guides. It is maintained under the nix-community organization and serves as a discovery index for the Nix ecosystem.

## Use cases
- find resources to learn the Nix package manager
- discover NixOS deployment and configuration tools
- find Nix tutorials for a specific programming language
- get started with Nix flakes and home-manager
- find NixOS modules and overlays
- locate learning materials for reproducible builds

## When to choose
- you are starting with Nix or NixOS and need curated learning paths
- you want a single index of community tools, guides, and distributions for the Nix ecosystem
- you are looking for language-specific Nix development resources

## When to avoid
- you need actual software or a package manager rather than a list of links
- you need official documentation instead of community-curated resources
- you are not working with Nix or NixOS at all

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, package-manager, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, awesome-lists, operating-systems
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: nix, nixos, awesome-list, curated-resources, package-management, reproducible-builds, devops, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- nix-community/awesome-nix (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.815689+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:57:44.936488+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.815689+00:00, sha 0e69013f31e6)
  - homepage: https://nix-community.github.io/awesome-nix/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:35.905574+00:00, sha 34189831e42c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.