Features

NvChad comes with many comforts of a modern IDE. All lazy-loaded and built on top of NeoVim’s fantastic lua integration while still looking very beautiful!

Plugins

Core plugins

packer.nvim

A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config, lazy loading etc.

better-escape.nvim

A plugin for escaping Vim insert mode without lagging.

telescope.nvim

Fuzzy finding select menu with text.

UI plugins

bufferline.nvim

Top bar bufferline for neovim (can be used for managing buffers and tabs, including close them. It also creates custom clickable buttons on the bufferline.

NvChad’s statusline written from scratch

Fast NeoVim statusline plugin written in lua.

Separator styles: slant, round, default, block, arrow:

• NOTE : (statusline looks different based on the themes, the above screenshot is from the onedark theme)

nvim-tree.lua

A file explorer tree for NeoVim written in lua.

blankline

Indentline plugin.

dashboard-nvim

Dashboard plugin for NeoVim.

nvim-base16.lua

Manages syntax colorscheme in NvChad.

nvim-colorizer.lua

Fastest NeoVim colorizer, colors hex colors, hsl codes and much more!

nvim-web-devicons

Lua fork of vim devicons which lets you change colors and edit icons of filetypes.

nvim-treesitter

NeoVim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer. We mostly use this for syntax highlighting. The pretty syntax highlighting you see in all of our screenshots has gotten possible due to treesitter

Language Server Plugins

Various LSP plugins

• nvim-lspconfig - Used for configuring lsp servers etc
• nvim-cmp - completion menu
• lsp-signature.nvim - lsp signature hint when you type
• lspkind.nvim - Adds pictograms to neovim built-in lsp completion items:

Misc plugins

• gitsigns.nvim
• nvim-autopairs
• comment.nvim