Features

NvChad Features

See https://nvchad.com/docs/features for the latest on current features of NvChad based Neovim configurations.

Inbuilt features

• NvChad is built upon its personal plugins and many general neovim plugins, below are the features that are provided by nvchad plugins ( their ui plugin, base46, extensions, nvterm, nvim-colorizer )

Base46

• Base46 is NvChad’s highlight performant theming plugin and has many ported themes ( around 57+ ).

How it works?

• Gets highlight groups
• Do some computations i.e check for overriden highlight groups, new highlight groups, theme overrides, custom user themes etc.
• Now base46 compiles all of that into bytecode.
• Integration files aren’t loaded by default, for example highlight group for telescope, nvimtree etc are put into different files.
• highlight groups are lazyloaded i.e you load them when needed
• example : dofile(vim.g.base46_cache .. “cmp”)
• In the below video you can see that the chadrc file’s ( user config ) UI related options reload on the fly

Theme switcher

• A theme switcher with telescope.nvim which reloads theme on the fly using base46 plugin + plenary.nvim.

Statusline

• They have their own statusline module ( their UI Plugin ) which has 4 statusline styles

Tabufline

• NvChad’s tabufline module ( from UI Plugin ) is a mix of tabline & bufferline.
• It manages buffers & tabs, buttons in it are clickable
• Each tab will have its own set of buffers stored and the tabufline will show those only.
• Think it like workspaces on Linux/Windows where windows stay in their own workspaces, but in vim buffers from all tabs will be shown in every tab!

Nvterm

• NvChad’s terminal plugin to toggle and run commands in neovim terminal buffer
• Using it with their telescope picker ( :Telescope terms ) to unhide terminal buffers leader + pt .

Dashboard

• Nvdash is NvChad’s minimal dashboard module, It’s very simple at this stage and will get more features in the future!
• Command to run it Nvdash, its disabled on startup, check the default_config.lua for its syntax and override it from chadrc.

NvCheatsheet

• Auto-generated mappings cheatsheet module which has a similar layout to that of CSS’s masonry layout.
• It has 2 themes ( grid & simple )

• command to toggle it : NvCheatsheet and mapping leader + ch

General neovim plugins

• These plugins aren’t related to nvchad, we just tweak theme a bit and theme the UI related ones.

Telescope.nvim

• Telescope.nvim is a highly extendable fuzzy finder over lists. Built on the latest awesome features from neovim core. Telescope is centered around modularity, allowing for easy customization.
• Below are 2 styles of telescope in nvchad ( bordered and borderless )

Nvim-tree.lua

• nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer tree for Neovim written in Lua.

Nvim-cmp

• nvim-cmp (A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.) is a completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.
• Below are some cmp styles in nvchad

• Note that thats just the cmp look in everblush theme, there are more 57 themes! You can hide cmp icons, cmpkind txt etc from the user config ( chadrc ) itself!

Auto-completion & LSP

• nvim-lspconfig is used along with cmp for completion and luasnip + friendly-snippets for snippet completion!

• lazy.nvim - A modern plugin manager for Neovim
• whichkey.nvim - Create key bindings that stick. WhichKey is a lua plugin for Neovim 0.5 that displays a popup with possible keybindings of the command you started typing.
• nvim-colorizer.lua - Fastest Neovim colorizer, hex colors, hsl codes and much more.
• nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer, we use it for syntax highlighting & auto-indenting.
• blankline - Indent guides for Neovim i.e indentline plugin.
• gitsigns.nvim - Git integration for buffers
• nvim-autopairs
• comment.nvim - Commenting plugin
• mason.nvim - Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters.