Configuring Neovim with Lua: What You Should Know

• Neovim-from-scratch

  81 5,252 5.0 Lua

  📚 A Neovim config designed from scratch to be understandable

  

Plugins are a big part of neovim (and honestly one of my favorites) because they make it so easy to use Lua to make plugins, which allows the community to create amazing plugins! While there are multiple plugin managers available, I found I liked packer.nvim the most. To get started you need a packer.lua file. In this file, we'll first install Packer, and then I added some other optional commands [(thanks to chris@machine)(https://github.com/LunarVim/Neovim-from-scratch), like making Packer use a popup window. If we move a little further down, we'll see some of the actual plugins. To install plugins you can use the following:

• init.lua

  8 2,919 6.8 Lua

NeoVim is such an amazing and powerful tool. It's insanely fast, flexible, and clean. I honestly can't believe I used to use vimscript to set it up, but anyways, in today's article, I'm going to show you how to start making your neovim config! But before we continue though, I'd like to give a big shout-out to Chris@machine's NeoVim from Scratch series, and ThePrimeagen, since a lot of my config is based on theirs.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• neovim

  1,384 76,884 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

First, I'd recommend you make sure to have the latest version of NeoVim installed. You can get the latets on their releases page. Let's start by having a quick look at the tree of my personal config tree.

• cozy-apple

  1 0 10.0 Lua

  Cozy dotfiles for mac

To get an idea of some remaps you might like, you can check out my personal remap file

• packer.nvim

  180 7,619 3.4 Lua

  A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

Plugins are a big part of neovim (and honestly one of my favorites) because they make it so easy to use Lua to make plugins, which allows the community to create amazing plugins! While there are multiple plugin managers available, I found I liked packer.nvim the most. To get started you need a packer.lua file. In this file, we'll first install Packer, and then I added some other optional commands [(thanks to chris@machine)(https://github.com/LunarVim/Neovim-from-scratch), like making Packer use a popup window. If we move a little further down, we'll see some of the actual plugins. To install plugins you can use the following:

• tree-sitter

  62 16,625 9.8 Rust

  An incremental parsing system for programming tools

  

treesitter - Better syntax highlighting,

• gruvbox.nvim

  46 1,629 7.5 Lua

  Lua port of the most famous vim colorscheme

  

gruvbox - my color scheme

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• telescope.nvim

  322 14,112 9.1 Lua

  Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

  

telescope - fuzzy finder

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