What are good general guidelines/tips for someone writing a plugin in Lua?

• plugin-template.nvim

  6 100 0.0 Lua

  A template to create Neovim plugins written in Lua

Hello everyone, I created a plugin template for Neovim before and now I'm planning to add a general guidelines section to its documentation. To not make this too personal I'd like to hear from you what are good tips, guidelines, do/don't, etc. when writing a Lua plugin. Does anyone here have strong opinions on this?

• package-info.nvim

  3 438 3.8 Lua

  ✍️ All the npm/yarn/pnpm commands I don't want to type

Keep the code splitting simple. When i was writing initial version of package-info I split stuff into multiple files, tried to make it all "nice" and organized. What that did is just complicated things and when and

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• baleia.nvim

  3 106 0.0 Lua

  Colorize text with ANSI escape sequences (8, 16, 256 or TrueColor)

I have mixed feeling about this one. With proper editor setup for Lua I find easy to navigate though the code and smaller files make testing feel simpler... at leas that was my impression while writing https://github.com/m00qek/baleia.nvim

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