Installing Plugins

In the previous section we setup the lazy plugin manager.

To install plugins, you (typically) need to include the name of the plugin inside of the curly brackets {} in your lazy.setup({}) method.

Lualine Example

Here’s an example of how you would install the lualine plugin - a simple statusline for Neovim.

require("lazy").setup({
    "nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim"
})

You can then save and quit, and re-open Neovim and lualine will be installed.

Each plugin will include installation instructions in their GitHub repository, as well as information on configuring it.

Setting Up Plugins

Similarly to how our plugin manager has code to install it and code to set it up, individual plugins work the same way.

We have just installed lualine - but we still need to set it up.

This is as simple as adding the following code to your configuration (e.g. at the bottom of your init.lua file, or in lua/lualine-steup.lua):

require("lualine").setup()

Each plugin is slightly different to set up, and may have additional options you can configure inside of the setup brackets.

Details for each plugin will be in their relevant GitHub repository.

Caveats and Pitfalls To Avoid

Module naming - In your lua/ directory make sure you don’t create filenames which may conflict with each other.

Ordering of require statements - Make sure, for example, you have required and set up your plugin manager, before you try to require and set up your plugins.

Finding Plugins

There is a curated list of plugins at Awesome Neovim you can use to get started.