Awesome Flake Parts

A curated list of awesome flake-parts resources, modules, and examples. Flake-parts is a framework for writing Nix Flakes that provides a modular approach to flake configuration.

Contents

• Official Resources
• Tutorials
• Blog Posts
• Flake Modules
• Example Projects
• Community

Official Resources

• flake-parts Website - Official documentation and guides.
• flake-parts Repository - Source code and issue tracker.
• API Reference - Comprehensive options reference.

Tutorials

• flake-parts to set up nodejs devshell - Tutorial about using flake-parts to set up a nodejs devshell.
• Flake-parts: writing custom flake modules - Primer on writing flake-parts reusable flake modules.

Blog Posts

• Refactoring My Infrastructure As Code Configurations - About a migration from host-centric to feature centric nixos configuration.

Flake Modules

Official Modules

• flake-parts/modules - Built-in modules.

Community Modules

• hercules-ci-effects - CI/CD integration for flake-parts.
• treefmt-nix - Declarative formatter configuration.
• devshell - Improved developer shells.
• pre-commit-hooks-nix - Git pre-commit hooks integration.
• nixos-flake - Opinionated NixOS configuration with flake-parts.
• flake-root - Discover project root directory.
• nix-gaming - Gaming tools and configurations.
• community.flake.parts - A Community website with links to several flake-module projects.
• services flake - NixOS-like services for Nix as flake modules.
• VTimofeenko/flake-modules - A collection of reusable flake modules, incl. a nice inputs bumber.
• nixos-unified - Flake-parts module to unify NixOS + nix-darwin + home-manager configuration in a single flake.

Related Patterns, Frameworks, Utilities and Libraries

• The Dendritic Pattern - Nix flake-parts usage pattern in which every Nix file is a flake-parts module.
• Unify - Framework for unifying multiple types of Nix configurations.
• import-tree - Import all nix files in a directory tree.
• flake-file - Dynamically generate your flake.nix from flake-parts modules.
• Dendritic Nix - Community-driven Nix distribution based on the Dendritic pattern.
• Flake-parts Builder - Nix flakes interactive template builder based on flake-parts written in Rust.

Personal Dotfiles & Infra repo's using flake-parts

• srid/nixos-config - NixOS configuration with flake-parts.
• vic/vix - Vic's *Nix config with flake-parts and import-tree.
• mightyiam/infra - Shahar "Dawn" Or (mightyiam)'s personal Nix-powered IT infrastructure repository.
• quasigod/nixconfig - NixOS and Home Manager configurations with flake-parts and unify.
• dropol/infra - Pol Dellaiera's configuration of all his home computers.
• VTimofeenko/monorepo-machine-config - Monorepo containing dotfiles and machine configurations.
• dtomvan/puntbestanden - Tom van Dijk's monolithic, interconnected NixOS/HomeManager/Nixvim configs.

Community

• GitHub Discussions - Q&A and discussions.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

To the extent possible under law, the authors have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.