Welcome to nix.dev

nix.dev is the home of official documentation for the Nix ecosystem.

If you’re new here, install Nix and begin your journey with our tutorial series!

Tutorials

Series of lessons to get started

Guides

Guides to getting things done

Reference

Collections of detailed technical descriptions

Concepts

Explanations of history and ideas in the Nix ecosystem

What can you do with Nix?

The following illustrate of what can be achieved with the Nix ecosystem:

• Reproducible development environments.

• Easy installation of software over URLs.

• Easy transfer of software environments between computers.

• Declarative specification of Linux machines.

• Reproducible integration testing using virtual machines.

• Avoidance of version conflicts with already installed software.

• Installing software from source code.

• Transparent build caching using binary caches.

• Strong support for software auditability.

• First-class cross compilation support.

• Remote builds.

• Remote deployments.

• Atomic upgrades and rollbacks.