nvim config

Requirements

Neovim itself, plus these system dependencies:

• Neovim >= 0.12 (needed for the built-in vim.pack plugin manager)
• git - fetches plugins via vim.pack
• A C compiler (build-essential on Ubuntu/Debian, i.e. gcc/cc) - required by nvim-treesitter (main branch) to build parsers, and by Mason to build any tool that has no prebuilt binary for your platform
• Rust + Cargo (via rustup) - used to install the tree-sitter CLI
• tree-sitter CLI (cargo install tree-sitter-cli) - nvim-treesitter (main branch) shells out to tree-sitter build to compile parsers; without it and a C compiler, :TSUpdate/TSInstall fail with ENOENT ... 'tree-sitter'
  • On Ubuntu, cargo install tree-sitter-cli can fail while building rquickjs-sys with fatal error: 'stdbool.h' file not found, even with gcc/libc6-dev installed - libclang (used by bindgen) fails to find gcc's own header dir. Work around it with: BINDGEN_EXTRA_CLANG_ARGS="-I/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/include" cargo install tree-sitter-cli (adjust the 15 to your installed gcc version)
• ripgrep (rg) - Telescope live grep and hidden-file search (lua/navigation.lua)
• fzf - not required as a CLI; only used if you separately install telescope-fzf-native.nvim (not included by default)

dbt / BigQuery editing (lua/database.lua, lua/dbt.lua)

Only needed if you use the BigQuery/dbt editor keymaps (<leader>b*):

• bq (Google Cloud SDK's BigQuery CLI) - runs dry-run cost estimates and real queries against BigQuery
• dbt (dbt-core or dbt-fusion, on PATH) - compiles dbt model Jinja (ref/source/config/macros) before running/estimating a query
• A configured gcloud auth / BigQuery project - required for bq to work

Install (Ubuntu/Debian)

sudo apt install -y build-essential ripgrep

# rustup (provides cargo)
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

cargo install tree-sitter-cli

Then open nvim - vim.pack and Mason will install the rest (LSP servers, plugins, treesitter parsers) automatically.