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# 🚀 Getting Started

**lazy.nvim** is a modern plugin manager for Neovim.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/292349/208301737-68fb279c-ba70-43ef-a369-8c3e8367d6b1.png)

## ✨ 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](https://devhints.io/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](https://www.nerdfonts.com/) **_(optional)_**

## 📦 Installation

You can add the following Lua code to your `init.lua` to bootstrap **lazy.nvim**:

<!-- bootstrap:start -->

```lua
local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim"
if not (vim.uv or vim.loop).fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({
    "git",
    "clone",
    "--filter=blob:none",
    "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git",
    "--branch=stable", -- latest stable release
    lazypath,
  })
end
vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)
```

<!-- bootstrap:end -->

Next step is to add **lazy.nvim** below the code added in the prior step in `init.lua`:

```lua
require("lazy").setup(plugins, opts)
```

- **plugins**: this should be a `table` or a `string`
  - `table`: a list with your [Plugin Spec](#-plugin-spec)
  - `string`: a Lua module name that contains your [Plugin Spec](#-plugin-spec). See [Structuring Your Plugins](#-structuring-your-plugins)
- **opts**: see [Configuration](#%EF%B8%8F-configuration) **_(optional)_**

```lua
-- Example using a list of specs with the default options
vim.g.mapleader = " " -- Make sure to set `mapleader` before lazy so your mappings are correct
vim.g.maplocalleader = "\\" -- Same for `maplocalleader`

require("lazy").setup({
  "folke/which-key.nvim",
  { "folke/neoconf.nvim", cmd = "Neoconf" },
  "folke/neodev.nvim",
})
```

ℹ️ It is recommended to run `:checkhealth lazy` after installation.