How To Use lazy.nvim For A Simple And Amazing Neovim Config

In this video I go through everything you need to know to get up and running with lazy.nvim for an awesome and simple way of configuring and managing your Neovim plugins. This plugin manager has been great for simplifying my setup and making it more efficient. Hope you enjoy it!
🚀 My Neovim Config/Dotfiles: github.com/josean-dev/dev-env...
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I've added which-key for helpful keymap suggestions to this new setup!
lazy.nvim repo: github.com/folke/lazy.nvim
My previous packer setup (separate branch in repo): github.com/josean-dev/dev-env...
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Commands to delete packer plugins and packer_compiled.lua in Mac or Linux:
Delete packer_compiled.lua: "rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack"
Delete packer installed plugins: "rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack"
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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:07 - Installing lazy.nvim
03:37 - Checking health
04:02 - Plugin example 1 (colorscheme)
06:55 - Structuring plugins properly
08:21 - Plugin example 2 (nvim-tree)
10:42 - init.lua in "plugins" directory
12:03 - Lazy loading on events 1 (nvim-cmp)
15:40 - Lazy loading on events 2 (Comment.nvim)
17:17 - Lazy loading on keymaps (vim-maximizer)
18:41 - Plugin example 6 (bufferline)
19:38 - Using the Lazy UI
20:25 - Adding subdirectory under "plugins"
21:52 - Configuring lazy.nvim
22:40 - Adding lualine plugin with lazy component
24:30 - Conclusion
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[@jackli5926]

I have used vim mode on vscode and the vanilla vim for two years. I never seen any videos that explain these concepts as clean&clear as you.

[@ThisGuyRocksLikeCrazy]

Thank you for the video. I think your video is the most up-to-date video ever. There are not many videos on lazy.nvim. Your repo layout is also pretty neat. I was trying to use lazyvim is a reference, but that repo was really convoluted. Yours is simple and to the point. I really appreciate all your efforts in creating this.

[@justsomedo0d]

Such quality content on this channel, I’m absolutely blown away 😮 I’ve been working on my config for a couple months since starting my Neovim adventure and resources like this are invaluable to me 🙏

[@JefCollier]

Thanks to Josean, I may never be done tweaking my config. It's a curse. But I embrace it.

[@zezinhun]

I was STRUGGLING to understad how to organize and set up the pluggins before this video. I finally inderstand how it works. TY SO MUCH!

[@slmdchampion]

I just wanted to drop you a quick comment to thank you for this video. I am switching from VScode to nvim, and I'm getting my setup tuned. Your explanations about how the plugins, options and the plugin.lua files work together and the lazy loading. It's helping me to understand how nvim configuration works so I can setup nvim for my uses. Cheers.

[@iatheman]

This is the best explanation of Lazy I've found. Awesome job!

[@BrunoCoelho]

Loved how you organize the folders so that it can make our life easier when installing and configuring plugins and nvim in general. Also, your pace is perfect for a newbie like me. Other creators are just too fast to keep up with.

[@talanb]

I love your thorough tutorials on nvim configs! I would definitely like to see an LSP-centric video showing all things LSP!

[@user-rz6ew5nk7q]

I really like your videos about neovim! It helped me getting into it and flatten the curve. It would be super awesome if you could make a video about the ns-null replacement 👍

[@harleycoughlin8050]

Thanks for the guide. Finally was able to swap from packer to lazy

[@worldxm]

Thank you for the detailed explanations of the lazy plugin manager. I was trying to make a fresh install of my Neovim without using a distribution (LazyVim). Your video helped me understand and better organize my plugins. Now I feel confident on making my custom setup without having unused plugins that comes with the Distro.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome!

[@ygvanz]

Great video. Will have this for future reference, also would like to see your video with your new lsp config.

[@foxglenacres]

I just discovered this video and love it! The lazy package manager is great and your video lays out a configuration so well, i "took" a few ideas. :) You mentioned in the video, about lsp configuration, yes please! I am struggling with mason/lazy/lsp and confused.

[@Aucacoyan]

Great video! Very nice and most important very thorough! The animations were also of really good quality. Keep it coming!

[@TheRuancarlo]

This one is the most helpful and actually teaching video on neovim plugins use, kudos!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear it was helpful! Thanks for the feedback.

[@user-kd3jr2in4t]

now almost all my questions about lazy.vim are closed. Tank you, Josean. Keep going. (liked, subscribed)

[@ryansteiger6960]

Thank you for the video Josean. I was able to follow along 👍

[@ryohai2]

Thank you for your generious guide of giving a bunch of useful live example of using lazy.nvim. I'm recently using lazy and lost my self in the documentation. Your video just picks up the key points and has lightn me up. 😍Like to see more of this.

[@MORE2Clay]

yo thanks finally migrated everything to lazy - was absolutely worth it!

[@raynebenson9040]

great video man was stuck for days you helped me get unstuck thank you!

[@andriesvanwyk3226]

Brilliant, Josean. Thank you so much!

[@nizardev]

thank you for amazing setup! love it.

[@boy_deploy]

Informative and well presented! Awesome! Thank you so much!

[@joseanmartinez]

Really appreciate the feedback and your support! Thank you! Happy to hear you found it helpful!

[@vichl3853]

Awesome info in all the videos, I am new to nvim so all his videos has helped me a lot.

[@nullor]

perfect, just what I needed! most other tutorials are still using packer

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Glad you found it helpful.

[@paulaleksis1513]

Can’t thank you enough for your content it has helped me a lot.

[@GavinTomlins]

Compliments to you, Josean, for providing an excellent blueprint on how tutorials should be written and presented. I found you to be articulate, the tutorial informative, well-structured and perfectly timed. I appreciate the extra effort you put into supplying sources for the content that you reference. Please share how you generate the keyboard overlay of your keystrokes in the bottom right. I hope people head over and buy you a coffee as a gesture of thanks for your effort. Enjoy

[@joseanmartinez]

I really appreciate that! Glad I could help and thank you for the support🙏🏽

[@Imam.Mehdi_]

​@@joseanmartinezcan you help,my lazyvim is working fine,also tsserver is working fine,but tsserver is not giving suggestions for html tags in jsx, I have to write lot of html and css in jsx ,,,in my lunar vim tsserver is giving me suggestions for html tags in jsx file but in lunarvim problem is autocomplete work on tab key not on enter key...anh help

[@ErmandDurro]

As always great video. Thanks Josean 🙏

[@sa27ph]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@user-ze3bc8hw3y]

This setup is great. luv your work. I just struggle to get my null-ls to work correctly with mason. but the rest is perfect

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

simple and to the point, thank you :)

[@damnhatesyou]

Great video this was really helpful especially learned I about some neat plugins. I was really missing an easy way to comment lines. now i just need multi cursor

[@StoneColdET_]

Glad to see this pop up in my feed!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Hope you enjoy it!

[@sputnick1]

I love your channel. I love optimising my dev environment and i’ve been using packer since forever so this is exactly what i needed. Thanks for the help :)

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, really happy to hear that!

[@MenemAbrazo]

Sí señor! Gracias por este mega video, explicás todo de forma extremdamente accesible. Saludos y gracias!

[@joseanmartinez]

Saludos! Muchísimas gracias 🙏🏽

[@muhammadraza7231]

Thanks man for the detailed video about lazy and I like your videos just because your videos are very detailed. Thanks again! I subbed

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! I really appreciate that, glad it was helpful!

[@FutanariNeko417]

Commenting for the algorithm, amazing tutorial, thank you!

[@s8x.]

thanks for your videos. now i have done everything you have done in your videos

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback 🙏🏽

[@foifirst]

Excellent precise introduction to lazy

[@user-oo6vf1lo8i]

Enjoy your attention to detail with clear examples. Please do a LSP setup.

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks! Here’s the LSP setup video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH2bdWt7oNWbi9k

[@ThePlaguedWriter]

So far so good. Thanks.

[@TheThestarlo]

Thank you, so much time saver !

[@Hacking-Life]

Thanks for this video Josean!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Glad to hear it was helpful.

[@doctorcooper]

Thank you for exploring a great developer experience for us! I've made split keyboard and learning vim for work and it inspiring me for new horizons. Good job!

[@joseanmartinez]

That’s really awesome! Happy to hear the videos have been helpful, hope you’re enjoying your split!

[@doctorcooper]

I hope we'll see the next episode about LSPs.@@joseanmartinez

[@rafaleljupio2724]

This video was soooo useful! Keep it up man !!

[@joseanmartinez]

Sweet! Happy to hear that, thanks for the feedback!

[@gueyenono]

You, sir, just got a new subscriber!

[@tiagodejesus456]

Another great video!

[@ikhlasulkamal5245]

Nice explanation dude, you just got a sub. Lookin forward for more great videos like this

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, appreciate it!

[@alonso0188]

Thank you man.

[@jawuku3885]

Thanks for the video! I'd love to learn how to set up lsp and linting / formatting.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Happy to hear it was helpful.

[@mathiaz943]

A video with setting up LSP with this new lazy.nvim would be great!

[@JonathanMorrisMusic]

Found your channel a few weeks ago and been loving your Neovim content. Would love to see a video with your thoughts on null-ls.nvim and typescript.nvim alternatives. Keep up the great work!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Really appreciate it. Thanks for the feedback, will be looking into that.

[@MarkStrus]

@joseanmartinez I am very interested in this too. I use neovim for work and both null-ls and typescript.nvim are plugins I use. I often work with typescript. Also this was a great video. I see your config has changed a lot since your video to set up neovim. THe configuration looks interesting and I'm planning to switch mine up in a similar way once I get lazy.nvim installed. Thanks for the great content. These videos really help me to understand how neovim works as well as a lot of the plugins I use.

[@matrixspielt]

thank you so much

[@casino130]

I started with your previous "amazing" (packer) set up, and then hopped over here to continue without appending, a bit faster but I'm at the pink screen after typing :Lazy so doing ok thanks again ser

[@iantnotes3047]

Amazing guide! just a question, how did u set up that bottom status bar in iterm?

[@vaisakhkm783]

That's the coolest way to see the updates.... it was really annoying to have long list of updates hiding my buffer... but i also don't want missing out of update for so long that when i update everything crashing all at once, so i need notification for increamentally fixing breaking changes

[@joseanmartinez]

Nice! Glad you found that helpful.

[@jizhang2407]

Thanks for another amazing tutorial. Yes, I'd like to watch your tutorial on lspconfig which always confuse me.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, glad you found it helpful! Appreciate the feedback, definitely on the list.

[@vincecarpino]

Really enjoyed your thorough walkthrough last time! This one is just as clear and helpful, so thanks. Out of curiosity, is there a reason you have your files nested in the *josean* folder? Keep crushin it!

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Thanks, really appreciate it. I’m pretty sure I saw it as a convention in another setup and stuck with it, but if you prefer, you can probably do without it.

[@comfysage]

this convention is mainly to avoid name collisions between plugins and your configuration files

[@KhanhLe-vo9vf]

This is a great developer experience for me. Really love it. Thank you so much

[@daltonstegner6718]

I am brand new to neovim and I was so turned around with lazy.nvim but your video helped so much! Earned my sub for sure :)

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, thank you!

[@TheVantassell]

Amazing, thank you!!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, glad it was helpful!

[@vhspiceros]

Great video, Congratz 🎉🎉🎉

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!

[@NoctuaDeveloppement]

Hi, Amazing video ! It would be amazing to have a video to optimize LSP configuration by ourself. Because I work mostly on PHP and Laravel at work, and Python, Swift and Typescript for my personnal project. Thank's to you I have working configs but it's not really optimize. Thank for sharing great stuff!

[@joseanmartinez]

Cool! Appreciate the feedback, considering making a dedicated lsp video. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@wojciech-kulik]

I really enjoy your tutorials, very useful and good quality content! Make some more videos about neovim! :)

[@ryanliu7495]

help me a lot, tks

[@nianhbg]

Thank you for a great video 😀. So easy to understand and to get started with. I have almost moved completly to vim from vs code.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Thank you 🙏🏽

[@cheddikiravu3556]

Everything worked for me (except the icon colors) until the beginning of packer. I'm glad Lazy came along. Do you recommend deleting all previous packer-based configurations on Neovim before migrating them to Lazy?

[@sanketshah7670]

so informative!

[@joseanmartinez]

Glad you found it helpful! Thanks for the feedback!

[@Linuxdirk]

... so maybe I should tinker with my config again now 😉👍

[@CyperN077]

Do I need a lazy plugin manager for plugins? I prefer loading them all upfront rather than needing to load them when required, like having bullets ready in a gunfight. Exellent video...

[@vikingthedude]

Thank you for this! Could you please do debug adapter setup for neovim? Thanks!

[@devabdul]

I really like video, and i want more video on neovim config, AstroVim is best please make video on it

[@reverse_shell]

+1 for the LSP video!

[@joseanmartinez]

Cool, thanks for the feedback!

[@gwod4782]

​@@joseanmartinez+1 again

[@joseanmartinez]

Working on it! Should be the next video coming up, thanks for the feedback!

[@juancarloshernandez2545]

Hola Jose, excelente video, mi configuración esta basada en la tuya y me encanta, exactamente ayer me mude a lazy, jeje me adelante por un día. Saludos desde CDMX México...por cierto cómo aprendiste a hablar así de bien el ingles, que me recomiendas?

[@joseanmartinez]

Que bien! Aprendí inglés desde temprana edad en una escuela bilingüe. Muchas gracias 🙏🏽

[@lpanebr]

Yes, do the lsp video. Thanks!

[@joseanmartinez]

Working on it! Thanks for the feedback.

[@danko-8229]

love the vid, btw what font are you using, looks so good

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Thanks! I’m using MesloLG Nerd Font. You can find the list here: www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

[@zheli2417]

Hi what theme on prompt you use at 1:36?

[@seshadribasava2801]

Finally :)

[@Rundik]

When I last tried vim/nvim it was slower than sublime text. Is it better now?

[@hassanmohammed2462]

i cant find the code for the one you mentioned you used previously for setting up the nvim-tree

[@kristofferlindvall9285]

Hey! Any chance you know how to make sure pyright doesn't give "Unable to import..." warning? All the modules work and in vscode it does not give a warning. Thanks!

[@mkum2141]

Great vid. Any reason as to why you are no longer using lsp saga for your lsp buffers?

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks! I just wanted something a bit simpler and felt like I didn’t really need it. I’m using a mixture of telescope and the built in lsp related functionality. It’s really a matter of preference.

[@rlifts]

I see an issue with the config, since telescope is lazyloaded how do you go about seeing your keys like ff ? Im using LazyVim so it may be a different setup.I found out that in order to show the keys while loading lazy you have to put them in the keys = ...

[@kamalkamals]

which app using to display keyboard key in the screen ?

[@Zergeometer]

Hi Josean, thanks for the amazing content! I noticed that you changed toggle file tree keymap from leader-e to leader-e-e. Why?

[@christianarzu]

I guess that it's because you want to have multiple tile tree mappings, ee ef ec er, otherwise you could only have 1, which is the toggle with `e` I also added `keymap.set("n", "es", "NvimTreeFocus", { desc = "Focus on the tree" }) -- Focus on the tree` To send focus back to the tree if I open the wrong file

[@christianarzu]

Just realized I can move between nvim tree and my code on the right using regular vim motions, but pressing ctrl `ctrl+h` and `ctrl+l`

[@joseanmartinez]

Yep! It was because I needed more keymaps for it, like opening the file tree but in the location of the current file I’m in with “ef”. And yes! You can use ctrl+l and ctrl+h if you’re using vim-tmux-navigator like me as the tree is just another split!

[@EJIqpEP]

Hi Josean, can you tell how to work with Git please? Resolving conflicts in particular.

[@oskarkarlsson8905]

After copying ur telescope config from the git repo, i cant seem to get it to work. Maybe you could do a short vid explaining how to use it in the way u have it setup?

[@chyldstudios]

Yep, I use lazy.nvim too.

[@IkigaiLofiBeats]

just updated to lazy nvim because of you. One question , how do you make the round camera little window with you. you mention in a video but I forgot witch video was it. Thinking about to building a corne also.

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! I use a mask in Final Cut Pro to achieve that. Typically I am screen recording and recording myself on my camera at the same time.

[@IkigaiLofiBeats]

@@joseanmartinez Thank you!

[@seeemawn]

where do you get this amazing prompt from? Its worth installing ios on a virtual machine :D

[@Brandon-th9pi]

Hey Josean, Is prettier formatting your typescript code? I'm noticing lua works but anytime I save typescript/js files don't format.

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Not sure why that might be happening. Prettier is formatting my typescript code properly. I'd make sure you have the prettier formatter installed with Mason and check that it's listed as a source for null-ls.

[@amaraag9435]

Hi all? I installed Neovim 0.9 on my ubuntu mate. But ./config folder didn't exist. How I found those confguring files?

[@luisdario1493]

Anyone knows how to change the folder color like he switch the arrows colors?

[@Ashandsax]

Hi, I basically imported your profile and it's awesome. But I am unsure how to add plugins. Specifically I am trying to install 'neorg'. Could you please advise?

[@wq6062]

Great! What keyboard did you used? it's sounds very good 😮

[@waso999]

Cherry Corne Version 3 Kit

[@waso999]

most programmers are using (Keychron keyboard)

[@wq6062]

@@waso999Thank you! I will check it later

[@bitcode_]

wepa!

[@msp99000]

bro which font do you use? I use Meslo LGS which is good but it has some icons like Find File, Text etc missing

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! I was using Meslo LGS up until recently and I also realized it was missing some icons, I went to the nerd fonts website and installed the latest “MesloLG Nerd Font” and set my terminal font to “MeloLGS Nerd Font Mono”. That should get you those icons you’re missing. Hope that helps!

[@msp99000]

@@joseanmartinez Thanks for the reply. I reinstalled both Meslo LGS Mono and MesloLGS The Mono font icons are too small in iTerm2. However, what I noticed is that the problem is with iTerm2 itself I guess. I fixed the issue by manually copy pasting same icons and passing into "opts" parameter and it seems to work just fine

[@Whoever_knows]

What keyboard and caps are you using ?

[@morpheus4564]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYWwlHttqpKpq5I

[@cr4zyg3n36]

Hi Josean I have a question, but don't expect an answer I I suppose you are very busy replying to many people, but the netrw when you open it has all the folders expanded I have set let g:netrw_liststyle = 3, but for some reason they don't automatically expand. Could you please shed some light on this please?

[@lingur1681]

Can you make a video reviewing mini.nvim, it seems very powerful and useful with minimal effort.

[@joseanmartinez]

Sounds interesting! I haven’t looked into that yet, thanks for letting me know about it