den - an aspect-oriented approach to Dendritic Nix configurations.#

🏠 Define Hosts, Users & Homes concisely.

See schema in _types.nix.

# modules/hosts.nix
{
  # same home-manager vic configuration
  # over laptop, macbook and standalone-hm
  den.hosts.x86-64-linux.lap.users.vic = {};
  den.hosts.aarch64-darwin.mac.users.vic = {};
  den.homes.aarch64-darwin.vic = {};
}

$ nixos-rebuild  switch --flake .#lap
$ darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#mac
$ home-manager   switch --flake .#vic

🧩 Aspect-oriented incremental features. (example)

Any module can contribute configurations to aspects.

# modules/my-laptop.nix
{ den, ... }: {
  den.aspects.my-laptop = {
    includes = [
      den.aspects.workplace-vpn
      den.provides.home-manager
    ];
    nixos  = { /* NixOS options */ };
    darwin = { /* nix-darwin options */ };
    # For all users of my-laptop
    homeManager.programs.vim.enable = true;
  };
}

# modules/vic.nix
{ den, ... }: {
  den.aspects.vic = {
    homeManager = { /* ... */ };
    # User contribs to host
    nixos.users.users = {
      vic.description = "oeiuwq";
    };
    includes = [ 
      den.aspects.tiling-wm 
      den._.primary-user 
    ];
  };
}

For real-world examples, see vic/vix or this GH search.

❄️ Try it now!

Launch our template VM:

nix run github:vic/den

Or, initialize a project:

nix flake init -t github:vic/den
nix flake update den
nix run .#vm

Our default template provides an annotated quick-start.