plenary.nvim VS nvim-reload

we can create a function to open a pop up menu using plenary.popup like this, you need to install neovim plenary if you don't already have it https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim

If you are really interested in doing this yourself with loop, you should take a look at either plenary.job or netman.shell (I made the latter) as both are very well documented.

I feel this :( That said, alot of plugins rely on plenary.nvim. Its up to you if you determine this is "non-essential" or not. It will almost certainly be available for you to use already.

The big reason I ask is that reaching out to an external python shell to run commands (disregard the fact that its python running) is going to be much slower than using the in built lua JIT interpreter. Additionally, plenary has a built in curl function so you don't have to "reinvent the wheel".

There is also test harness in nvim-lua/plenary.nvim with a slightly different design, but still usable of course.

I am simply using busted or more specifically vusted which is a wrapper around busted for Neovim. It should be quite straightforward to learn the basics, I would say you mostly need to know these functions: describe, it (these are used to structure your test cases) and assert.are_same (to check for table equality). Some people are also using plenary which is also based on busted.

It's based on nvim-lua-plugin-template, but uses Nix flakes to run plenary.nvim tests.

Plenary plugin for Nvim

Briefly experimented with https://github.com/famiu/nvim-reload, but had some troubles configuring it

Read nvim-reload source code for reference.

I stumbled upon nvim-reload but telescope also wasn't found after :Restart

You can use this - https://github.com/famiu/nvim-reload - to reload your configuration. Then it's possible to PackerSync without restart.

I haven't used reload.lua from plenary, so I don't have advice there. If you don't mind that it isn't maintained, I use this for reloading my config without restarting nvim and it has worked just fine: https://github.com/famiu/nvim-reload

I use this plugin: https://github.com/famiu/nvim-reload

I'm using a modded version of /u/_Famiu_ old nvim-reload which was unfortunately archived.

I'm trying to write a helper function that fully reloads nvim without the need of closing and reopening it, using as a base the now unmaintained nvim-reload with has some good info on the matter on it's source code

I think I tried https://github.com/famiu/nvim-reload before but it was so long ago, and didn't work well that I don't even remember

Thank you for the insight, this is pretty much what famiu/nvim-reload does.