Documentation | Neovim_Chad

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What is it?

• NvChad is a neovim config written in lua aiming to provide a base configuration with very beautiful UI and blazing fast startuptime (around 0.02 secs ~ 0.07 secs). We tweak UI plugins such as telescope, nvim-tree etc well to provide an aesthetic UI experience.

• Lazy loading is done 93% of the time meaning that plugins will not be loaded by default, they will be loaded only when required also at specific commands, events etc. This lowers the startuptime and it was like 0.07~ secs tested on an old pentium machine 1.4ghz + 4gb ram & HDD.

• NvChad is supposed to be used with its starter config, so nvchad main repo ( this repo ) can be imported as a plugin via lazy's import feature and then you can easily use this repo's modules like autocmds etc.

Theme Showcase

UI related plugins used

Nvim-tree.lua

Fast file tree:

Telescope-nvim

A fuzzy file finder, picker, sorter, previewer and much more:

Our own statusline written from scratch

NvChad UI

Tabufline (our own pertab bufferline)

• Here's a video that showcases it.

NvCheatsheet ( our UI Plugin )

Modern Theme Picker

For detailed info list, check features page

Project layout

├── init.lua
├── lazy-lock.json
├── LICENSE
├── lua
│   ├── autocmds.lua
│   ├── chadrc.lua
│   ├── configs
│   │   ├── conform.lua
│   │   ├── lazy.lua
│   │   └── lspconfig.lua
│   ├── mappings.lua
│   ├── options.lua
│   └── plugins
│   └── init.lua
└── README.md

Installation 🛠️

Requirements 📦

• Neovim (v0.9+ recommended)
• Git
• Node.js
• Python3 (with pynvim)

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Linux 🐧

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y neovim git curl python3-pip nodejs npm
git clone https://github.com/ExploitEngineer/Neovim_Chad.git ~/.config/nvim
nvim

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macOS 🍏

brew install neovim git curl python3 node npm
git clone https://github.com/ExploitEngineer/Neovim_Chad.git ~/.config/nvim
nvim

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Windows (WSL) 💻

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y neovim git curl python3-pip nodejs npm
git clone https://github.com/ExploitEngineer/Neovim_Chad.git ~/.config/nvim
nvim

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Arch Linux 🖥️

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S neovim git curl python-pip nodejs npm
git clone https://github.com/ExploitEngineer/Neovim_Chad.git ~/.config/nvim
nvim

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First-Time Setup 💡

Open Neovim:

nvim

Run plugin sync:

:Lazy sync

Restart Neovim:

nvim

You're all set! 🧠

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🛠️ Support & Issues

If you run into problems or want to contribute, feel free to open an issue.

Happy coding! 🚀