Awesome Nim

A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by other awesome lists.

• Awesome Nim
  • Build Systems
  • Database
  • Game Development
  • GUI
  • IDE
  • Implementations
  • Package Management
  • Package Repositories
  • Scripting
  • Services
  • Web
    • Web Frameworks
    • Parsing HTML
• Development Tools
• Resources
  • Books
  • Blogs
  • Community
  • Websites
• Contributing

Build Systems

• Nake - Describe your Nim builds as tasks [MIT]
• Nimble - Nimble can be used as a build system [BSD]
• ChooseNim - Installing and switching between Nim versions (à la rustup, pyenv) [MIT]

Database

• ormin - Prepared SQL statement generator , A lightweight ORM

Game Development

• frag - A cross-platform 2D|3D game framework for the Nim programming language http://fragworks.io [MIT]
• zengine - 2D | 3D Game development library

GUI

• iup - Wrapper for IUP - Desktop GUI's
• nimx - Desktop, Mobile & Web GUI framework in Nim.

IDE

• Aporia - IDE/Advanced text editor mainly focusing on support for the Nim programming language.
• Editor Integration - Offical list of editor plugins for nim

Implementations

• Nim - Nim (formerly known as "Nimrod") is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nim's design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of priority) [MIT] website
• Nlvm - LLVM backend for nim. [MIT]

Package Management

• Nimble - Package manager for the Nim programming language. [BSD]

Package Repositories

• Nim packages - List of packages for Nimble.
• Nimism - Search for available Nim packages.

Scripting

• Nimcr - Running Nim code with Shebangs.

Services

• Luntic - A lightweight REST in-memory discovery service. [Apache-2.0]

Web

Web Frameworks

• Jester - The sinatra-like web framework for Nim. Jester provides a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Nim. [MIT]
• Karax - a framework for developing single page applications in Nim.
• nawak - A web micro-framework in Nimrod, heavily inspired by jester, flask and the like. [MIT]
• oauth - OAuth library for nim [Apache-2.0]
• rosencrantz - DSL to write web servers, inspired by Spray and its successor Akka HTTP

Parsing HTML

• Nimquery - A library for querying HTML using CSS selectors, like JavaScripts document.querySelector. [MIT]

Development Tools

Binding Generators

• Pymod - Gen Python C-API wrappers. [MIT]

Resources

Books

• Nim in Action - Nim's first book, avaliable via mannings early access program

Blogs

• Nim Blog - Official Nim blog
• Goran Krampe - Wrapping C, arduino, performance, links
• HookRace - a Nim blog for now
• Rants from the Ballmer Peak - posts on nim and other languages

Community

• The Nim forum
• The Nim IRC channel
• The Nim Gitter channel
• The Nim mailing list
• The Nim SubReddit

Websites

• How i start - Great guide going from 0 to a bf interpreter and then a bf to nim compiler
• Learn Nim in Y minutes - Whirlwind tour
• Nim by example - A series of pages and examples for learning the Nim programming language.
• Nim for Python programmers - A guide to Nim for people with experience in Python.
• Roseetacode:Nim - 100's of solutions for variours tasks using nim (Implementations avaliable in other languages as well)

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome!

Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING for guidelines.