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🚀 Getting Started

lazy.nvim is a modern plugin manager for Neovim.

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✨ Features​

  • 📦 Manage all your Neovim plugins with a powerful UI
  • 🚀 Fast startup times thanks to automatic caching and bytecode compilation of Lua modules
  • 💾 Partial clones instead of shallow clones
  • 🔌 Automatic lazy-loading of Lua modules and lazy-loading on events, commands, filetypes, and key mappings
  • ⏳ Automatically install missing plugins before starting up Neovim, allowing you to start using it right away
  • 💪 Async execution for improved performance
  • 🛠️ No need to manually compile plugins
  • 🧪 Correct sequencing of dependencies
  • 📁 Configurable in multiple files
  • 📚 Generates helptags of the headings in README.md files for plugins that don't have vimdocs
  • 💻 Dev options and patterns for using local plugins
  • 📊 Profiling tools to optimize performance
  • 🔒 Lockfile lazy-lock.json to keep track of installed plugins
  • 🔎 Automatically check for updates
  • 📋 Commit, branch, tag, version, and full Semver support
  • 📈 Statusline component to see the number of pending updates
  • 🎨 Automatically lazy-loads colorschemes

⚡️ Requirements​

  • Neovim >= 0.8.0 (needs to be built with LuaJIT)
  • Git >= 2.19.0 (for partial clones support)
  • a Nerd Font (optional)
  • luarocks to install rockspecs. You can remove rockspec from opts.pkg.sources to disable this feature.