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Top 23 Lua Neovim Projects
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NvChad
Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.
Neovim is my daily driver for editing code and configuration files. Combined with NvChad, it becomes a fast, modern IDE with smart defaults, LSP support, treesitter syntax highlighting, and a beautiful UI. I love how customizable it is. I can tweak everything from keybindings to themes, making it fit my exact workflow. Even though it's my secondary code editor, but No.1 in CLI.
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A modern, feature-rich Neovim configuration built with Lua and managed by lazy.nvim. Organized, fast, and beautiful - just the way it should be.
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The switch was hard at first, especially file management. I was so used to the file tree on the left of my editor. I tried to replicate that in Neovim with nvim-tree but it didn’t feel the same. Until I came across oil.nvim, this was a game changer for me as it made creating, renaming and moving so much easier. That was the moment that I felt I could switch. I had tried a few of the popular Neovim distros such as Lunarvim but found them too overwhelming. I personally prefer a basic setup with not too many bells and whistles (I know, I used JetBrains before but only used 10% of that editor’s capacity and had a minimal interface configured).
- Project mention: Do you really need a plugin for fuzzy finding files in Neovim? | dev.to | 2025-05-06
I'm a simple man; I used telescope.nvim for finding files and not for much else. But I'm also a minimalism junkie so I'm always on the lookout for ways to get more value with less dependencies.
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AstroNvim
AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins
You can definitely put all of your configuration into a single file for AstroNvim if you want.
In the docs it shows the minimal configuration to get AstroNvim running which is <10 lines in your ~/.config/init.lua file and then anything else you can just drop in that same file if you want. (https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim?tab=readme-ov-file#mi...)
Here is a user on GitHub that has a single file AstroNvim configuration: https://github.com/20k-ultra/dotfiles/blob/master/nvim/init....
- Project mention: Neovim 0.12 native autocomplete and native plugin manager for laravel and go | dev.to | 2025-10-13
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InfluxDB
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mason.nvim
Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters.
Mason
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The switch was hard at first, especially file management. I was so used to the file tree on the left of my editor. I tried to replicate that in Neovim with nvim-tree but it didn’t feel the same. Until I came across oil.nvim, this was a game changer for me as it made creating, renaming and moving so much easier. That was the moment that I felt I could switch. I had tried a few of the popular Neovim distros such as Lunarvim but found them too overwhelming. I personally prefer a basic setup with not too many bells and whistles (I know, I used JetBrains before but only used 10% of that editor’s capacity and had a minimal interface configured).
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packer.nvim
A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config
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tokyonight.nvim
🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.
Project mention: Neovim 0.12 native autocomplete and native plugin manager for laravel and go | dev.to | 2025-10-13 - Project mention: Neovim 0.12 native autocomplete and native plugin manager for laravel and go | dev.to | 2025-10-13
- Project mention: Show HN: Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-08
The PKM space for neovim plugins is a surprisingly deep rabbithole but it can take quite a while to find what you need.
For completions and tagging https://github.com/Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide works well for me and does pretty much everything I need.
There are also a glut of all-in-one solutions like https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg (org-mode for neovim) and https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim.
Graphing is a bit harder because it doesn't intuitively match up with nvim's interface, but I'm pretty sure I saw something on Reddit the other day.
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I've been rocking dual Pycharm w/ Vim bindings plus a neovim setup and bounce between. The only thing preventing me from going 100% neovim is Pycharm's python debugger.
I have setup neovim-dap[0] with all the related plugins, it works for simple script but it bugs out and crashes when running our Flask web app. I rely heavily on the Pycharm debugger to step through our app.
Have you had a good experience with setting up a debugger in vim/neovim or is that not part of your workflow?
0: https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap
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which-key.nvim
đź’Ą Create key bindings that stick. WhichKey helps you remember your Neovim keymaps, by showing available keybindings in a popup as you type.
folke/which-key.nvim: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim :
> Customizable Layouts: choose from classic, modern, and helix presets or customize the window.
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trouble.nvim
🚦 A pretty diagnostics, references, telescope results, quickfix and location list to help you solve all the trouble your code is causing.
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- Project mention: Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-03
This doesn’t even come close to CodeCompanion[1], which doesn’t require any new LSP config/dependencies or filetype limitations.
There is no ability to share the current buffer(s) for context, no tool support. This seems like a checkbox release. You’re better off using CodeCompanion with Amazon Bedrock, which includes the added benefit of sovereignty.
[1]: https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim
- Project mention: Show HN: Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-08
Obsidian.nvim (https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim) has been working really well for me. I use Obsidian mobile app (it’s not the best in this space, but still very good). And on my laptop, I’ve got neovim - getting to the daily note is one key combo. It’s also super fast and syncs using Obisidan Sync (or you can do your own).
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kanagawa.nvim
NeoVim dark colorscheme inspired by the colors of the famous painting by Katsushika Hokusai.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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[Release] boundary.nvim – Visualize 'use client' boundaries in your React code directly inside Neovim
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conform.nvim: store formatters settings in a project config
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Neovim 0.12 native autocomplete and native plugin manager for laravel and go
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Neovim projects in Lua? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | NvChad | 27,610 |
| 2 | LazyVim | 24,331 |
| 3 | lazy.nvim | 19,693 |
| 4 | LunarVim | 19,177 |
| 5 | telescope.nvim | 18,745 |
| 6 | AstroNvim | 13,965 |
| 7 | nvim-lspconfig | 13,109 |
| 8 | mason.nvim | 9,834 |
| 9 | mini.nvim | 8,470 |
| 10 | nvim-tree.lua | 8,255 |
| 11 | packer.nvim | 8,096 |
| 12 | tokyonight.nvim | 7,665 |
| 13 | lualine.nvim | 7,596 |
| 14 | neorg | 7,141 |
| 15 | nvim | 7,027 |
| 16 | nvim-dap | 6,838 |
| 17 | which-key.nvim | 6,788 |
| 18 | trouble.nvim | 6,590 |
| 19 | gitsigns.nvim | 6,403 |
| 20 | oil.nvim | 6,021 |
| 21 | codecompanion.nvim | 5,785 |
| 22 | obsidian.nvim | 5,762 |
| 23 | kanagawa.nvim | 5,709 |
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