Pimp your CLI

1. NvChad

   1 192 25,948 7.5 Lua

   Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

   

   NeoVim was released in 2014 as a fork of VIM that adds support for Lua. Just like its predecessor, there is quite the learning curve, but the payoff as a keyboard-first editor is truly rewarding. You have endless options to customize your setup and I encourage you to start by changing individual things to your liking (like tabs vs spaces) and to make a custom configuration of your own. Lua is already popular as a systems language so it was a good replacement for vimscript and it makes it easier to write plugins in comparison which means there is a good selection of plugins available for Neovim. Its easy to get option paralysis with the vast amount of customization and plugins, so there’s popular configurations of neovim that put together a nice UI with modern IDE functionalities and we can start with those like AstroNvim and NvChad.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. tmux

   2 228 37,106 9.0 C

   tmux source code

   

   As a developer, the command line is one of the tools you will be using most frequently. It can be intimidating to venture into the world of CLI tooling but I can assure you it is one of the most rewarding experiences too. In this post I want to walk ya'll through my personal CLI setup. It is based on 3 technologies which I'll coin as the "Holy Trinity" of the command line: TMUX, ZSH, & Neovim.

4. zsh

   3 78 3,797 8.2 C

   Mirror of the Z shell source code repository.

   

   As a developer, the command line is one of the tools you will be using most frequently. It can be intimidating to venture into the world of CLI tooling but I can assure you it is one of the most rewarding experiences too. In this post I want to walk ya'll through my personal CLI setup. It is based on 3 technologies which I'll coin as the "Holy Trinity" of the command line: TMUX, ZSH, & Neovim.

5. awesome-tmux

   4 8 8,303 6.7

   A list of awesome resources for tmux

   

   If any of the plugins fails to install you can always use this same mechanism of cloning the repo and calling "install" after. Make sure to checkout Tmux's Awesome list for more.

6. ohmyzsh

   5 609 177,700 9.4 Shell

   🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ 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 that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

   

   ZShell is an alternative to bash a.k.a. "Bourne-Again SHell". It does everything that bash does and just like Tmux it is extensible via a healthy plugin ecosystem. By this point I hope you have already tried to run zsh on your terminal. At first it won't look like much has changed but with the right plugins this can become your best friend on the command line. The first thing we need to do is to install oh-my-zsh, a framework on top of zsh that manages configs, plugins, themes, and more.

7. awesome-zsh-plugins

   6 15 16,171 9.5 Shell

   A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.

   

   Make sure to checkout Zsh's Awesome List for more.

8. AstroNvim

   7 137 13,256 9.6 Lua

   AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins

   

9. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

10. neovim

    8 1,426 88,702 10.0 Vim Script

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

    

    As a developer, the command line is one of the tools you will be using most frequently. It can be intimidating to venture into the world of CLI tooling but I can assure you it is one of the most rewarding experiences too. In this post I want to walk ya'll through my personal CLI setup. It is based on 3 technologies which I'll coin as the "Holy Trinity" of the command line: TMUX, ZSH, & Neovim.

11. lazy.nvim

    9 138 17,037 9.5 Lua

    💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim

    

    The basic plugins will be downloaded on the first run using Lazy, a package manager for Neovim that loads only the necessary plugins as you use them. Once it's done you should be looking at a full-fledged IDE.

12. iTerm2

    10 202 15,867 9.8 Objective-C

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

    

    A decent terminal application (i.e: iterm2, alacritty, etc.)

13. awesome-neovim

    11 130 17,630 9.4

    Collections of awesome neovim plugins.

    

    Make sure to checkout Neovim's Awesome List for more.

14. alacritty

    12 369 58,374 8.7 Rust

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    

    A decent terminal application (i.e: iterm2, alacritty, etc.)

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