lazy.nvim/docs/intro.md

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🚀 Getting Started

lazy.nvim is a modern plugin manager for Neovim.

✨ 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.