Useful tools for working with NixOS

nixos-tools.md

Online things

• Package search (for stable channel)
• Options search (for stable channel)
• A list of channels, and when they were last updated
• A timeline of channel builds
• A source code search (that actually works!) of all NixOS repositories; Nix, nixpkgs, etc.

Development tooling

• A .drv file parser in JS

(Reference) documentation

• Nix manual
• nixpkgs manual
• NixOS manual
• Archive of security advisories
• Unofficial NixOS wiki

Tutorials and examples

• Step-by-step walkthrough of the Nix language
• Nix pills (a series of articles about different aspects of Nix; ongoing work on a compact edition can be found here)
• Example configurations