Resources to Go Further

1. NixOS’s website contains the official and up-to-date Nix documentation. It includes various manuals and guides: Entry-level tutorials, and tutorials that go deeper about how Nix works such as Nix pills.
2. learnNixInYMinutes gives a dense overview of the Nix Expression Language.
3. Exploring Nixpkgs functions and packages can be a great source of inspiration.
4. Exploring simpler package repositories such as kapack can also be a good source of inspiration.

Otherwise, here is random list of Nix-related resources.

• nix-user-chroot enables to use Nix without root permissions (e.g., on a Grid‘5000 frontend).
• Lorri is a nix-shell replacement that tries to maximize comfort while developing projects.
• NixOS wiki on pinning Nixpkgs
• NixOS wiki on customizing packages
• Nix file naming conventions
• Information about channels
• Channels and reproducibility