VSCodium Insiders for Nix

A standalone Nix flake for the official VSCodium Insiders binaries. It uses Nixpkgs's shared VS Code builder and exposes the installed command as codium-insiders without adding a conflicting code alias.

This is an unofficial packaging project and is not maintained by VSCodium.

Supported systems

Nix system	Upstream archive
aarch64-darwin	Darwin arm64 zip
aarch64-linux	Linux arm64 tarball
x86_64-linux	Linux x64 tarball

Run or install

These commands require Nix with flakes enabled.

Run without installing:

nix run github:escidmore/vscodium-insiders-nix

Install into your Nix profile:

nix profile install github:escidmore/vscodium-insiders-nix
codium-insiders

If GitHub's unauthenticated API rate-limits the github: shorthand, use the equivalent Git URL instead:

nix run git+https://github.com/escidmore/vscodium-insiders-nix.git

Use as a flake input

Add the input:

inputs.vscodium-insiders.url = "github:escidmore/vscodium-insiders-nix";

Then add the package to a NixOS or nix-darwin package list:

environment.systemPackages = [
  vscodium-insiders.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.default
];

For Home Manager, use the same package under home.packages:

home.packages = [
  vscodium-insiders.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.default
];

The named package is also available as packages.<system>.vscodium-insiders.

To consume it through the overlay instead:

nixpkgs.overlays = [ vscodium-insiders.overlays.default ];
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.vscodium-insiders ];

In these examples, vscodium-insiders is the flake input bound in your outputs function or passed into the module that uses it.

Updating the packaged release

From a clone of this repository, run the updater exposed by the package's standard Nix update interface:

"$(nix eval --raw .#vscodium-insiders.updateScript)"

The updater discovers GitHub's latest release, validates all three supported assets and their SHA-256 digests, converts the hashes to Nix SRI form, and atomically updates release.nix. It makes no change when the recorded release is already current. Set GITHUB_TOKEN if unauthenticated GitHub API rate limits are too restrictive.

Run the test suite after an update:

for test in tests/*.sh; do "$test"; done

Tests evaluate every public package output and build artifacts when a compatible local or remote builder is available.