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rocks.nvim is a Neovim plugin manager that handles the installation of dependencies for you!

Instead of manually declaring plugins and their dependencies/build instructions, all you need to do is run the command :Rocks install foo.nvim.

• See the Why rocks.nvim? section in the README.

rocks.nvim relies on the Lua package manager luarocks. So instead of listing them in the README or in a spec file in the repository, plugin dependencies and build instructions must be specified in a Rockspec on luarocks.org.

The benefit compared to the manual approach is it has to be done only once instead of <number of users> and can vary depending on versions and platforms. For a comparison with decentralised automated approaches, like packspec, see this article.

Since version 11, lazy.nvim has some basic luarocks support (which is awesome 🚀🌒). However, it still prefers its own specification, treating luarocks packages as separate entities.

rocks.nvim goes all in. Luarocks packages are first-class citizens.

Because we follow the UNIX philosophy, some popular features of Neovim plugin managers are not baked in, but available via extensions:

• Safe plugin configuration is achieved https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks-config.nvim
• A fallback for plugins not on luarocks (yet) is https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks-git.nvim that allows you to fetch the plugin from git directly
• Lazy-loading can be set up via https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks-lazy.nvim

... and much more. See the rocks-nvim GitHub topic.

Keep in mind: Since we are pioneering a new approach to plugin management, the road may still be rocky at times. Bear with us 😄