Shout out to Astronvim!

AceFour · May 9, 2024, 2:45pm

Got to give a shout out to Astronvim. Ever since NeoVim moved to lua it has been config hell for me. Stopped trying to roll-my-own and tried LunarVim, nvChad, and others. Astronvim was easy to setup and did 99% of what I needed to do with minimal config.

I have some oddball needs since I work with some old Node.js API’s that use Mocha. Setup under Astronvim was incredibly simple setup to allow me to run/debug tests in the editor. Goodbye vscode!

only thing changed from install were mason installs and two files

github.com

geoffcorey/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/nvim/lua/community.lua

-- AstroCommunity: import any community modules here
-- We import this file in `lazy_setup.lua` before the `plugins/` folder.
-- This guarantees that the specs are processed before any user plugins.

---@type LazySpec
return {
  "AstroNvim/astrocommunity",
  { import = "astrocommunity.pack.lua" },
  -- import/override with your plugins folder
  --  { import = "astrocommunity.git.gitblame" },
  { import = "astrocommunity.pack.json" },
  { import = "astrocommunity.pack.markdown" },
  { import = "astrocommunity.test.neotest" },
  { import = "astrocommunity.pack.typescript" },
  { import = "astrocommunity.split-and-window.edgy-nvim" },
}

and

github.com

geoffcorey/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/neotest.lua

return {
  "nvim-neotest/neotest",
  config = function()
    -- get neotest namespace
    local neotest_ns = vim.api.nvim_create_namespace "neotest"
    vim.diagnostic.config({
      virtual_text = {
        format = function(diagnostic)
          local message = diagnostic.message:gsub("\n", " "):gsub("\t", " "):gsub("%s+", " "):gsub("^%s+", "")
          return message
        end,
      },
    }, neotest_ns)
    require("neotest").setup {
      adapters = {
        require "neotest-go",
        require "neotest-rust",
        require "neotest-python",
        require "neotest-mocha",
      },

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winnyace · May 9, 2024, 2:56pm

I can’t lie when I say that I have yet to try a Vim distro (I think that’s their name) before. I’ve always set up my config myself, to mixed results. I am thinking of trying this one out, though.

AceFour · May 9, 2024, 3:07pm

Yeah it was a bear when I tried to switch my setup over to lua. After awhile I decided to try some of the distro’s. I used Lunarvim the longest but I really had to do a lot of config for dap and mocha and the debug screen didn’t render correctly. Executing mocha tests was a bit of pain too.

The new setup is on par with everything I do with vscode which has made me very happy since vscode w/vi keys was really crappy experience.

manfredlotz · May 9, 2024, 6:47pm

What is the advantage in comparison to NvChad?

Quenyen · May 9, 2024, 6:54pm

I do not know if there is an advantage over NvChad, but it is a nice setup. I tried NvChad and it was just way easier to understand AstroNVim. I was cranky a little bit when they went to the new version until I just realized all I had to do was delete my local dir and it recreated everything to match.

AceFour · May 9, 2024, 6:59pm

I like the preconfig’d community plugins for astronvim. One less thing to have to deal with.

manfredlotz · May 9, 2024, 7:01pm

Thanks to @AceFour and @Quenyen for your feedback.

~~I think NvChad has predefined community plugins as well.~~ (I mixed up things here, as it seems)

I will try out AstroNvim.

akya · May 9, 2024, 7:57pm

I use NvChad. Backed up the config and now giving this one a try. Looks pretty nice with sane defaults.

manfredlotz · May 10, 2024, 8:31am

You can go without backup when you use NVIM_APPNAME

Example:

git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/AstroNvim/template ~/.config/AstroNvim
NVIM_APPNAME=AstroNvim nvim

You find more on this here: https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html

manfredlotz · May 10, 2024, 4:45pm

I just saw that the AstroNvim people have also mentiones NVIM_APPNAME here:
https://docs.astronvim.com/reference/alt_install/

akya · May 10, 2024, 5:43pm

Aah, that’s a nice trick, thanks for that!

manfredlotz · May 13, 2024, 6:57pm

Ok, I did some deeper testing with AstroNvim and I have to admit that I like it more than NvChad which I used before.

Without much hassle I was able to get my stuff into AstroNvim and be happy with it.

So, I have to say thank you @AceFour for your shouting out to AstroNvim.