Top 10 Shell plugin-manager Projects

prezto

34 13,780 6.3 Shell

The configuration framework for Zsh

Project mention: Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22

Beyond zprof (https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/zsh-profiling) not really I'm afraid. I did the majority of my zsh-prompt hacking 10 years ago and haven't thought about it since. That snippet could be from anywhere.
You could peek at something like zprezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto or pure https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure for tips.
Fetching git/hg/... info is always slow, so try and speed that up where you can (as to how to do that, uhh... I know my prompt has a dirty-state check nicked from pure for speed reasons). You can also cache any `asdf init zsh` or similar to a file and do the same "run in background" trick so the next shell will have any changes.
The biggest improvement I can remember was dropping zprezto for my own much smaller config, I really did not need much comparatively. Mostly some git info and "good default" options. I use zgenom for a plugin manager but only have 3 plugins, probably I should just dump it and inline the plugins to avoid getting owned one day.

antigen

8 7,891 0.0 Shell

The plugin manager for zsh.
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fisher

33 7,387 3.1 Shell

A plugin manager for Fish

Project mention: Oh My Zsh | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-22

You've got to install Fisher, then get z, sponge and a few others from the awsm.fish list.
Then you get trapped by the utility and struggle when you land on some remote server's bash shell.
https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher
https://github.com/jorgebucaran/awsm.fish#readme

zinit

24 2,304 8.2 Shell

🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager (by zdharma-continuum)

Project mention: Deeply scammy looking zsh plugin manager called "zi" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-08

I don’t use zsh plugin managers myself, but it looks like zinit already had the ability to update itself. Why on earth replace a working solution with a broken one? zi won’t be able to load plugins when the computer is offline for no good legitimate reason that I can possibly think of.
https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit#upgrade-zinit-and...

zsh-snap

7 1,236 5.4 Shell

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

Project mention: Oh-my-zsh without oh-my-zsh? | /r/zsh | 2023-05-11

Personally I use https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-snap as my plugin manager. You can just reference this baseline template that the author of the plugin manager has made if you want a sample config:

zap

2 895 5.6 Shell

:zap: Zap is a minimal zsh plugin manager (by zap-zsh)

Project mention: zsh doesn't output anything when there's an segfault | /r/zsh | 2023-06-20

Well, I turned to zap which works fine for me and solves my problem.

zgenom

10 327 4.7 Shell

A lightweight and fast plugin manager for ZSH
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zcomet

7 184 3.0 Shell

zcomet - Fast, Simple Zsh Plugin Manager

Project mention: zsh doesn't output anything when there's an segfault | /r/zsh | 2023-06-20

/u/unuing You might check out that discussion, or file a new bug. If you just want to try swapping out zplug, I personally like zcomet when using a plugin manager outside of a dotfiles manager.

voom

2 28 4.5 Shell

A simplest-thing-that-works Vim plugin manager. Use with Vim 8 or Pathogen. (by airblade)
miniplug

1 23 0.0 Shell

:sunflower: Minimalistic plugin manager for ZSH (mirror)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).