nvim-autopairs VS nvim-lua-guide

I would like to be able to jump out of a pair generated by nvim-autopairs (https://github.com/windwp/nvim-autopairs) using a Tab. To me it is impossible to get out of the habit of using tab for it, as placing an autopair looks and feel like a snippet, and I typically move out of a snippet with a tab.

A couple nice quality of life plugins would be: Comment (which lets you use a keybinding to comment/uncomment things), Autopairs (which will make the paired brackets/parentheses/etc.), and Rainbow2 (which color-matches the pairs if things like parentheses).

abecodes/tabout.nvim windwp/nvim-autopairs

As an example, I give a slight edge to windwp/nvim-autopairs because it can turn 'test' into {'test'} just by pressing { instead of me having to use surround with something like gzaa'{

autopairs has worked for me

I think I have two plugins that affect this -- nvim-autopairs and cmp

For Rust closures, I'd like to have an autopair for "|" -- any idea how to actually add that to the nvim-autopairs plugin? (https://github.com/windwp/nvim-autopairs) This plugin has a lot of fancy stuff I do not need, but I'm not sure how to do this very basic thing.

Having trouble with nvim-autopairs. I'm trying to define a rule for automatically closing $ in .tex files, but I keep getting this error

Nvim Lua guide

My main struggles beyond a simple problem are just the inability to find a way to easily debug things and the general process for setting up a plugin. I mostly work with Python/Jupyter, some C and Lua/Bash scripts, and usually you can either write tests/print debug for smaller scale things or get some stack trace if you have an error. With Neovim development, it just feels like there's nothing more besides update plugin, try on neovim, fail, bash head against wall, and repeat, and that doesn't quite seem efficient or correct - I'm sure there's something out there that should make the process easier. I tried looking online but I haven't found many that really fit my needs (most of the resources here seem more targeted towards creating your own init.lua, and Luadev plugin's commands are all broken (:Luadev-RunLine and any other command keeps telling me I got some trailing space). I'm really just looking to see how to make a snippet library, but there doesn't seem to be much that helps me. If someone could let me know how they debug their plugin or point me to any external resources, please let me know!

I have no guidance for the first point. For the second, checkout the neovim lua guide or : lua-guide

A quick google search turned up this codeacademy class on learning to program in Javascript. I didn't vet the whole thing, but it appears to assume you know nothing, which is what you need. If you go through that, you can then consume one of the resources that /u/luascriptdev post to equate that back to Lua. Again, the concepts translate.