bashrcd vs zinit

bashrcd

.bashrc organizer with helpers (by targaryen)

zinit

Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages. (by zdharma)

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bashrcd		zinit
	Project
1	Mentions	25
0	Stars	2,691
-	Growth	-
2.5	Activity	6.5
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Shell	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	-

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bashrcd

Posts with mentions or reviews of bashrcd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-26.

Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2020

I moved to splitting my bashrc into multiple files and having my main bashrc source them from a ~/.bashrcd directory.
At heart it's a short snippet that just checks for existence and sources each file in the directory:
https://github.com/targaryen/bashrcd/blob/master/install/ins...
I added aliases to list/edit/remove entries from the .bashrcd directory and resource it. And a script I can call with a one-liner to edit bashrc on a new machine to add the sourcing and the helper aliases.
It'll load alphabetically so I can prefix entries with a number to specify load order (defaulting to 0100 so I don't need to specify this in the commands unless I explicitly changed them).
So the end result is that I can quickly edit or create a new bashrc entry by running 'ebrc entryname'. This opens ~/.bashrcd/0100--entryname in vi, and when it's saved it'll re-source so the add/change takes effect immediately.
Or 'lbrc' to list contents of the directory, or 'rbrc entryname' to remove ~/.bashrcd/0100--entryname
It's fairly simplistic but takes away most of the cognitive load of managing a complex bashrc.

zinit

Posts with mentions or reviews of zinit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-01.

zinit VS zinit - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 1 Nov 2021
Zinit suddenly missing from Github?
1 project | /r/zsh | 1 Nov 2021
github repo is missing
6 projects | /r/zinit | 29 Oct 2021

I just searched github for the latest fork, and it looks like the most recent fork is https://github.com/ryanstreur/zinit. I went ahead and forked it just in case and I have a version locally that I pulled down at Oct 12 17:12 PST. All zinit forks are showing as being forked from https://github.com/akatrevorjay/zplugin since https://github.com/zdharma/zinit is gone.
s/bash/zsh/g
24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2021
How do I enable this on vscode terminal on macOS
6 projects | /r/vscode | 17 Sep 2021
New to Mac entirely, and somewhat to DevOps. Any suggestions on getting started moving from primarily Windows/Linux? Given a MacBook Pro 2019 16"
14 projects | /r/devops | 7 Sep 2021

I personally prefer zinit to oh my zsh. Lets you use all the oh my zsh plugins without downloading everything (I think that's how it still works?), lets you manage outside plugins in the same way, and is really fast to boot.
How do you lazyload or delay loading plugins? Improving zsh and other questions (Or maybe my config is broken)
4 projects | /r/zsh | 31 Aug 2021

zinit has a turbo mode to load plugins asynchronously
Zsh Plugin managers
9 projects | /r/zsh | 19 May 2021

https://github.com/zdharma/zinit/pull/492 Documentation enhanced.
Anyone interested in ZINIT documentation?
7 projects | /r/zsh | 20 Apr 2021

In particular, I am curious about your opinion on part document structure.
Can zsh look give you suggestions by looking at manpages?
1 project | /r/zsh | 1 Apr 2021

Usage sample (using zinit) GENCOMPL_FPATH=$HOME/.cache/zsh-completion-generator if [ ! -d "$GENCOMPL_FPATH" ]; then mkdir -p $GENCOMPL_FPATH fi fpath=($GENCOMPL_FPATH $fpath) zstyle :plugin:zsh-completion-generator programs fzf zinit wait'3' lucid for RobSis/zsh-completion-generator

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bashrcd and zinit you can also consider the following projects:

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

zplug - :hibiscus: A next-generation plugin manager for zsh

nix - my nix modules, overlays, host configurations, and more!

zsh-snap - ⚡️ Znap! Fast, easy-to-use tools for Zsh dotfiles & plugins, plus git repos

dotfiles - Settings for various tools I use.

bashdot - Minimalist dotfile management framework.

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

sheldon - :bowtie: Fast, configurable, shell plugin manager

zplugin - Plugin manager with clean fpath and reports

antibody - The fastest shell plugin manager.