- NvChad is a neovim config written in lua aiming to provide a base configuration with very beautiful UI and blazing fast startuptime (around 0.02 secs ~ 0.07 secs). We tweak UI plugins such as telescope, nvim-tree, bufferline etc well to provide an asethetic UI experience.
- Lazy loading is done 93% of the time meaning that plugins will not be loaded by default, they will be loaded only when required also at specific commands, events etc. This lowers the startuptime and it was like 0.07~ secs tested on an old pentium machine 1.4ghz + 4gb ram & HDD.
- NvChad isnt a framework! Its supposed to be used as a "base" config, so users could tweak the defaults well, can also remove the things they dont like in the default config and build their config on top of it. Users can tweak the entire default config while staying in their custom config (lua/custom dir). This is the control center of the user's config and gitignored so the users can stay update to-date with NvChad's latest config (main branch) while still controlling it with their chadrc (file that controls entire custom dir)
- File navigation with [nvim-tree.lua](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua)
- Managing tabs, buffers with [bufferline.nvim](https://github.com/akinsho/bufferline.nvim)
- Beautiful and configurable icons with [nvim-web-devicons](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons)
- Pretty and functional statusline with [feline.nvim](https://github.com/Famiu/feline.nvim)
- Git diffs and more with [gitsigns.nvim](https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim)
- NeoVim Lsp configuration with [nvim-lspconfig](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig) and [lsp-installer](https://github.com/williamboman/nvim-lsp-installer/)
- Autocompletion with [nvim-cmp](https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp)
- I (@siduck i.e creator of NvChad) in my initial days of learning to program wanted a lightweight IDE for writing code, I had a very low end system, which was like 1.4ghz pentium + 4gb ram & HDD. I was into web dev so many suggested vscode but that thing was very heavy on my system, It took more ram than my browser! ( minimal ungoogled chromium ) so I never tried it again, sublime text was nice but the fear of using proprietary software XD for a linux user bugged me a lot. Then I tried doom-emacs which looked pretty but it was slow and emacs was kinda hard, I tried lunarvim but too lazy to read the docs which got me into vim and got into neovim lua stuff real quick. I wanted to make the config ery pretty and fast.
- I'm decent at ricing i.e customizing system and making it look pretty so I posted my neovim rice on [neovim subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/m3xl4f/neovim_rice/), my neovim-dotfiles github repo blew up and then I had to come up with a name, I was amazed by the chad meme lol so I put NvChad as the name, the chad word in the name doesnt literally mean the chad guy but in the sense such as chad linux vs windows i.e meaning superior,best etc. NvChad was made for my personal use but it gained some popularity which inspired me to make a public config i.e config usable by many and less hassle to update, without the custom config stuff users would have to keep a track of every commit and copy paste git diffs to manually update nvchad.
I'm (@siduck) really very sorry to remove the previous charity links but I had to do it for various reasons. A lot has been going here regarding financial issues and I do need some support if it's possible from your end. I haven't graduated yet and it would be great to earn some stuff as that'd help me with daily minor expenses. If you like NvChad and would like to support it via donation then I'll gladly accept it. Dont worry! NvChad will still stay alive & active without your donations! I will remove the sponsor button and re-add the charity links once I get a job, probably a year or two.
- [Elianiva](https://github.com/elianiva) helped me with NeoVim Lua related issues many times, NvChad wouldn't exist without his help at all as he helped me in my initial neovim journey!
