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### Online things[](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/67316a114a860d4ac6a9480a6e1d9c5c#online-things) - [Package search](https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html) - [Options search](https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html) - [A list of channels, and when they were last updated](https://status.nixos.org/) ### Development tooling[](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/67316a114a860d4ac6a9480a6e1d9c5c#development-tooling) - [A `.drv` file parser in JS](https://www.npmjs.com/package/drv) - [rnix](https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/rnix), a Nix (language) parser in Rust ### (Reference) documentation[](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/67316a114a860d4ac6a9480a6e1d9c5c#reference-documentation) - [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/) - [A *complete* list of Nix operators](https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/a-complete-listing-of-operators-in-nix-and-their-predence "A *complete* listing of operators in Nix, and their predence.") (the list in the official manual is incomplete) - [nixpkgs manual](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/) - [NixOS manual](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/) - [Official NixOS wiki](https://wiki.nixos.org/) ### Tutorials and examples[](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/67316a114a860d4ac6a9480a6e1d9c5c#tutorials-and-examples) - [Step-by-step walkthrough of the Nix language](https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/nix-by-example-a0063a1a4c55) - [A shorter primer of the Nix language](http://www.binaryphile.com/nix/2018/07/22/nix-language-primer.html) (probably a better option if you already know another programming language) - [Nix pills](https://lethalman.blogspot.nl/2014/07/nix-pill-1-why-you-should-give-it-try.html) (a series of articles about different aspects of Nix; ongoing work on a compact edition can be found [here](https://github.com/deepfire/nix-pills-compact-edition)) - [Example configurations](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Configuration_Collection) - [Hardware configurations](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware) (includes configurations for dealing with quirks on specific hardware and models) ### Community and support[](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/67316a114a860d4ac6a9480a6e1d9c5c#community-and-support) - [The Nix forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/) - [The Matrix space](https://matrix.to/#/#community:nixos.org) ### Miscellaneous notes and troubleshooting[](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/67316a114a860d4ac6a9480a6e1d9c5c#miscellaneous-notes-and-troubleshooting) - My Nix and NixOS notes: see the rest of the articles in this chapter! - My [Hydra setup notes](https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/setting-up-hydra "Setting up Hydra")