lazy.nvim/README.md

lazy.nvim

✨ Features

✅ TODO

• fancy UI to manage all your Neovim plugins
• auto lazy-loading of lua modules
• lazy-loading on events, commands, filetypes and key mappings
• Partial clones instead of shallow clones
• waits till missing deps are installed (bootstrap Neovim and start using it right away)
• Async
• No need to manually compile
• Fast. Automatically caches and compiles byte code of all lua modules needed during startup
• Correct sequencing of dependencies (deps should always be opt. Maybe make everything opt?)
• Config in multiple files
• dev option and patterns for local packages
• Profiling
• lockfile lazy-lock.json
• upvalues in config & init
• check for updates
• commit, branch, tag, version support
• semver https://devhints.io/semver
• auto-loading on completion for lazy-loaded commands
• bootstrap code
• Background update checker
• statusline component to see number of pending updates
• health checks: check merge conflicts async
  • unsupported props or props from other managers
  • other packages still in site?
  • other package manager artifacts still present? compiled etc
• status page showing running handlers and cache stats
• temp colorscheme used during startup when installing missing plugins
• automatically reloads when config changes are detected
• handlers imply opt
• dependencies imply opt for deps
• show spec errors in health
• fix plugin details
• show disabled plugins (strikethrough?)
• log file
• git tests
• Import specs from other plugin managers
• packspec
  • add support to specify engines, os and cpu like in package.json
  • semver merging. Should check if two or more semver ranges are compatible and calculate the union range
    • default semver merging strategy: if no version matches all, then use highest version?
  • package meta index (package.lua cache for all packages)

📦 Differences with Packer

• Plugin Spec:

  • setup => init
  • requires => dependencies
  • as => name
  • opt => lazy
  • run => build
  • lock => pin
  • module is auto-loaded. No need to specify

📦 Other Neovim Plugin Managers in Lua

• packer.nvim
• paq-nvim
• neopm
• dep
• optpack.nvim
• pact.nvim