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folke/lazy.nvim has 21,701 GitHub stars and 598 forks. GitHot measured +1 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-06 13:14 UTC. Last push 2026-06-29.
💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim
What you can do
- 📦 Manage all your Neovim plugins with a powerful UI
- 🚀 Fast startup times thanks to automatic caching and bytecode compilation of Lua modules
- 💾 Partial clones instead of shallow clones
- 🔌 Automatic lazy-loading of Lua modules and lazy-loading on events, commands, filetypes, and key mappings
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README.md
OriginalInstall · Configure · Docs
lazy.nvim is a modern plugin manager for Neovim.

✨ Features
- 📦 Manage all your Neovim plugins with a powerful UI
- 🚀 Fast startup times thanks to automatic caching and bytecode compilation of Lua modules
- 💾 Partial clones instead of shallow clones
- 🔌 Automatic lazy-loading of Lua modules and lazy-loading on events, commands, filetypes, and key mappings
- ⏳ Automatically install missing plugins before starting up Neovim, allowing you to start using it right away
- 💪 Async execution for improved performance
- 🛠️ No need to manually compile plugins
- 🧪 Correct sequencing of dependencies
- 📁 Configurable in multiple files
- 📚 Generates helptags of the headings in
README.mdfiles for plugins that don't have vimdocs - 💻 Dev options and patterns for using local plugins
- 📊 Profiling tools to optimize performance
- 🔒 Lockfile
lazy-lock.jsonto keep track of installed plugins - 🔎 Automatically check for updates
- 📋 Commit, branch, tag, version, and full Semver support
- 📈 Statusline component to see the number of pending updates
- 🎨 Automatically lazy-loads colorschemes
⚡️ Requirements
- Neovim >= 0.8.0 (needs to be built with LuaJIT)
- Git >= 2.19.0 (for partial clones support)
- a Nerd Font (optional)
- luarocks to install rockspecs.
You can remove
rockspecfromopts.pkg.sourcesto disable this feature.
🚀 Getting Started
Check the documentation website for more information.
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