There’s been a few times I have had to work on a VM or SSH into a server to do some work. I wanted to lower some of the friction associated with getting ready and comfortable in a new, foreign environment. This guide might also be useful for those who wanted to clone my setup but found the installation process a little tedious.

Overview:

1. Build Neovim from source or a release package.

2. Install dependencies for the setup. These are needed for the Neovim plugins to run smoothly

   sudo apt-get install ripgrep fd-find tmux curl python3 python3-pip

3. Install pnpm and set up the Node env via pnpm env use --global lts

   curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -

4. Clone nvim dotfiles + whatever else you might want.

   git clone https://www.github.com/aalhendi/dotfiles && mkdir --parents ~/.config/nvim/ && mv dotfiles/.config/nvim/* ~/.config/nvim/

5. Install global packages

   pnpm add -g typescript graphql neovim

   pip3 install 'pynvim'

6. Install Rust

   curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

7. Install rust-analyzer

   rustup component add rust-src

8. Install anything else… Ex. Debian-11 still doesn’t have clangd-12 clangd, Marksman.

   sudo apt-get install clangd-12

9. Run :PackerSync from within Neovim