Neovim for beginners

1. nvim-treesitter

   1 310 12,238 9.7 Tree-sitter Query

   Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

   

   Treesitter is what makes your neovim colorful. It uses the LSP and colorscheme and colors your variables, keywords and other stuff. To understand how treesitter works and configure treesitter please read the docs. Here is my configuration for treesitter:

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. telescope.nvim

   2 336 17,904 7.6 Lua

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

   

   I personally use Telescope as my fuzzy finder. Again, here's the docs for telescope and here's my config:

4. lazy.nvim

   3 138 18,037 8.6 Lua

   💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim

   

   -- Bootstrap lazy.nvim local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim" if not (vim.uv or vim.loop).fs_stat(lazypath) then local lazyrepo = "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git" local out = vim.fn.system({ "git", "clone", "--filter=blob:none", "--branch=stable", lazyrepo, lazypath }) if vim.v.shell_error ~= 0 then vim.api.nvim_echo({ { "Failed to clone lazy.nvim:\n", "ErrorMsg" }, { out, "WarningMsg" }, { "\nPress any key to exit..." }, }, true, {}) vim.fn.getchar() os.exit(1) end end vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath) -- Make sure to setup `mapleader` and `maplocalleader` before -- loading lazy.nvim so that mappings are correct. -- This is also a good place to setup other settings (vim.opt) vim.g.mapleader = " " vim.g.maplocalleader = "\\" -- Setup lazy.nvim require("lazy").setup({ spec = { -- All the plugins go here }, -- Configure any other settings here. See the documentation for more details. -- colorscheme that will be used when installing plugins. install = { missing = true, colorscheme = { "catppuccin-mocha" } }, -- automatically check for plugin updates checker = { enabled = true, notify = false }, }, { ui = { -- If you are using a Nerd Font: set icons to an empty table which will use the -- default lazy.nvim defined Nerd Font icons, otherwise define a unicode icons table icons = vim.g.have_nerd_font and {} or { cmd = '⌘', config = '🛠', event = '📅', ft = '📂', init = '⚙', keys = '🗝', plugin = '🔌', runtime = '💻', require = '🌙', source = '📄', start = '🚀', task = '📌', lazy = '💤 ', }, }, })

5. undotree

   4 37 4,281 5.3 Vim Script

   The undo history visualizer for VIM

   

6. gitsigns.nvim

   5 82 5,930 9.3 Lua

   Git integration for buffers

   

7. lsp-zero.nvim

   6 132 4,017 6.1 Lua

   A starting point to setup some lsp related features in neovim.

   

8. Comment.nvim

   7 63 4,340 7.4 Lua

   :brain: :muscle: // Smart and powerful comment plugin for neovim. Supports treesitter, dot repeat, left-right/up-down motions, hooks, and more

   

   Comments (To add comments) Docs: https://github.com/numToStr/Comment.nvim Config:

9. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

10. yazi.nvim

    8 1 1,152 9.7 Lua

    A Neovim Plugin for the yazi terminal file manager

    

    Docs: https://github.com/mikavilpas/yazi.nvim Config: This doesn't require any separate config. If you use yazi, the same config will be used here. Only the keybinds need to be configured while installing:

11. nvim

    9 71 6,535 8.4 Lua

    🍨 Soothing pastel theme for (Neo)vim

    

    This is again subjective, and depends on the user. I personally use catppuccin. Docs: https://github.com/catppuccin/nvim Config:

12. harpoon

    10 66 8,264 1.6 Lua

    

    Harpoon

13. neogit

    11 55 4,700 9.7 Lua

    An interactive and powerful Git interface for Neovim, inspired by Magit

    

    Neogit

14. todo-comments.nvim

    12 25 3,734 7.8 Lua

    ✅ Highlight, list and search todo comments in your projects

    

    TODO Domments

15. mini.nvim

    13 152 7,519 9.8 Lua

    Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.9 and higher) experience with minimal effort

    

    Mini.nvim

16. noice.nvim

    14 43 5,159 9.3 Lua

    💥 Highly experimental plugin that completely replaces the UI for messages, cmdline and the popupmenu.

    

    Noice.nvim

17. nvim-autopairs

    15 55 3,677 7.0 Lua

    autopairs for neovim written in lua

    

    Autopairs

18. indent-blankline.nvim

    16 73 4,620 6.9 Lua

    Indent guides for Neovim

    

    Indent Blankline

19. vim-css-color

    17 17 1,806 2.5 Vim Script

    Preview colours in source code while editing

    

    vim-css-color

20. vim-closetag

    18 10 764 0.0 Vim Script

    Auto close (X)HTML tags

    

    vim-closetag

21. goto-preview

    19 7 952 6.6 Lua

    A small Neovim plugin for previewing definitions using floating windows.

    

    goto-preview

22. windsurf.vim

    20 44 4,987 6.3 Vim Script

    Free, ultrafast Copilot alternative for Vim and Neovim

    

    Codeium If you think these are a lot, then yes they are but this gives me the most basic neovim setup that I need. You can add more plugins and make it even more feature rich, and it's completely fine but I like my setup to be fast and reliable, so the fewer plugins I have, the less I need to worry about them going out of date xD

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