Plug and play Neovim plugin boilerplate with pre-configured CI, CD, linter, docs and tests.
- interactive
setup
script - README.md template
- Perfect for open-source:
- CODEOWNERS file for PR auto-assign
- Issues and PR templates
- CD leveraging release-please-action
- CI:
- Test running on multiple Neovim version
- Lint check
- Documentation generation check
- Minimal run time, ideal for free plans
- Docs with mini.nvim
doc
plugin - Tests with mini.nvim
test
plugin- Versioned testing with
bob
- Versioned testing with
- Linting with Stylua
- LuaLS checks on CI (inspired by lukas-reineke/ci-template.nvim)
Note: This section is only required if you wish to use the linter provided by the template.
The following checklist is all your need to do to start writing your first plugin.
git clone https://github.com/shortcuts/neovim-plugin-boilerplate.git ~/my-awesome-plugin.nvim
git clone git@github.com:shortcuts/neovim-plugin-boilerplate.git ~/my-awesome-plugin.nvim
gh repo create my-awesome-plugin --template shortcuts/neovim-plugin-boilerplate --public --clone
The setup script will rename files and placeholder names for you. Once done, you can remove anything setup
related if you want to.
# interactive
make setup
# automated
USERNAME=my-github-username PLUGIN_NAME=my-awesome-plugin REPOSITORY_NAME=my-awesome-plugin.nvim make setup
Note: The placeholder names are purposely written with different casing. Make sure to keep it.
rm -rf doc
mv plugin/your-plugin-name.lua plugin/my-awesome-plugin.lua
mv lua/your-plugin-name lua/my-awesome-plugin
mv README_TEMPLATE.md README.md
:vimgrep /YourPluginName/ **/*
:cfdo %s/YourPluginName/MyAwesomePlugin/g | update
:vimgrep /your-plugin-name/ **/* .github/**
:cfdo %s/your-plugin-name/my-awesome-plugin/g | update
:vimgrep /YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/ .github/** **/*.md
:cfdo %s/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/shortcuts/g | update
:vimgrep /YOUR_REPOSITORY_NAME/ **/*.md
:cfdo %s/YOUR_REPOSITORY_NAME/my-awesome-plugin.nvim/g | update
You can now start writing your plugin, make sure the following commands work:
make deps
to install docs/tests dependenciesmake lint
to format the codemake documentation
to generate the documentationmake test
to run the tests
Enjoy!
PRs and issues are always welcome. Make sure to provide as much context as possible when opening one.