New Neovim Plugins You Should Try

Neovim plugins to try out for better development workflow.

New Neovim Plugins to Try

Overview

In a previous article, I talked about new Neovim completion frameworks to try out. Let’s go through the new Neovim plugins that could improve our development workflow in this article!

New Neovim Completion Plugins You Should Try

SnipRun

In Emacs, we have org-mode and org-babel that allow us to run code interactively. I am looking for a simple solution for Neovim and find SnipRun handy.

SnipRun is a code runner plugin for Neovim written in Lua and Rust. It aims to provide stupidly fast partial code testing for interpreted and compiled languages. It blurs the line between standard save-and-run workflow, Jupyter-like notebook, and REPL/interpreters.

To install it using packer.nvim,

use {
      "michaelb/sniprun",
      run = "bash install.sh",
      config = function()
        require("config.sniprun").setup()
      end,
}

I configure it to display the results on the command-line area, as virtual text, and in a floating window.

local M = {}
function M.setup()
  require("sniprun").setup {
    display = {
      "Classic",
      "VirtualTextOk",
      "TempFloatingWindow",
    },
  }
end
return M

SnipRun

Similar plugins,

• magma-nvim to run code interactively with Jupyter.
• codi.vim — an interactive scratchpad for hackers.
• vim-slime which grabs some text and sends it to a target like GNU Screen, tmux, or Vim Terminal.

null-ls.nvim

null-ls.nvim allows us to use Neovim as a language server to inject LSP diagnostics, code actions, and more via Lua.