vix - Vic's Nix Environment - and dendritic example repo.#

My repo serves as an educational example showing how den and my related libs structure a Dendritic NixOS setup with named, composable aspects instead of file imports. This is just one of many possible ways to organize a dendritic implementation. Feel free to explore, and share how you do things.

This specific setup is powered by den · flake-aspects · denful · flake-file · import-tree · flake-parts

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Aspects vs Imports#

# Traditional imports          # Dendritic aspects
imports = [                    vix.nargun.includes = [
  ./hardware.nix                 vix.hardware
  ../../shared/desktop.nix       vix.niri-desktop
];                             ];

Aspects are named values, not file paths. They compose without relative path juggling.

How It's Wired#

modules/
├── dendritic.nix        # Bootstraps dendritic libs
├── namespace.nix        # Creates `vix`, `vic`, `my` namespaces.
├── my/                  # Infra related aspects
│   |── hosts.nix        # Declares hosts, wires default profiles
│   |── user.nix         # Composes aspect used across all hosts.
│   └── workstation.nix  # Composes host setup.
├── vic/                 # User aspects and user settings.
│   └── *.nix            # many home-manager and os-config from vic.
└── community/vix/       # Community shared aspects
    └── *.nix            # Exposed at flake.denful.vix