Neovim for Beginners — Database Explorer

Set up a database explorer with LSP completion for Neovim.

alpha2phi
4 min readAug 20, 2022
Neovim for Beginners — Database Explorer

In this article, let’s explore plugins that can turn Neovim into a database browser or explorer.

This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series.

The Neovim configuration files are available in this repository.

Getting Started

As Neovim users, we want to do all our development from within Neovim, including managing the databases.

In this article, let’s explore plugins that provide an interface to interact with databases. We will also explore the built-in SQL completion, a feature provided by Vim/Neovim.

vim-dadbod

Using the vim-dadbod plugin and the following plugins provide us with a very user-friendly database explorer.

In the lua/plugins.lua file, we install these plugins.

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alpha2phi

Software engineer, Data Science and ML practitioner.