Nix Forge

WARNING: this sofware is currently in alpha state of development.

Nix Forge is an attempt to lower the barrier and learning curve required for packaging and deploying software with Nix to a level acceptable for newcomers who expect to adopt a new technology over the weekend while preserving all the superpowers of Nix.

Features

• Simple, type checked configuration recipes for packages and mutli-component applications

• Web UI

• Recipe builder

• LLM support

Packages outputs

• Shell environments
• Container images
• Development environments

Multi-component applications outputs

• Shell environments (for CLI and GUI components)
• Container images (for services)
• NixOS systems (for services)

Packaging workflow

1. Create a new package recipe file in outputs/packages/<package>/recipe.nix and add it to git.

2. Build package

nix build .#<package> -L

1. Inspect and test build output in ./result directory

2. Submit PR and wait for tests

3. Publish package by merging the PR

Examples

• Package recipe examples

• Application recipe examples

Debugging

Set build.debug = true and launch interactive package build environment by running

mkdir dev && cd dev
nix develop .#<package>

and follow instructions.

Tests

• Run package test

nix build .#<package>.test -L

LLMs

LLMs, read these instructions first.

TODOs

• CI checks and workflows (dependencies updates, ...)

• Many more language speciffic builders and configuration options

• Firecracker microVM support