Tool-specific frameworks

For a lot of us, a big chunk of our ~ folder is devoted to our shell and our text editor. Until you’re ready to roll your own setup, these projects make customization safe and easy.

Editors

Emacs

• Spacemacs (24346 stars) is a Emacs 24 distribution that builds on Evil-mode with ports of popular Vim plugins to closer emulate a Vim environment.
• Doom Emacs (20926 stars) is an Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker.
• Prelude (5225 stars) is an enhanced Emacs 24 distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.
• use-package (4481 stars) is a declaration macro for simplifying your .emacs
• Cask (1310 stars) is a package manager for Emacs.

Neovim

• NvChad (27119 stars) is a Neovim distribution focused on speed and good defaults, with a beautiful UI.
• LazyVim (22422 stars) is a Neovim distribution for the lazy, focusing on speed, sane defaults and easy customisation.
• LunarVim (19078 stars) is a Neovim distribution, geared towards building a community-driven IDE layer.
• lazy.nvim (18788 stars) is a modern plugin manager for Neovim.
• AstroNvim (13756 stars) is a Neovim distribution with an aesthetic and feature-rich configuration that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins.
• packer.nvim (8069 stars) is a plugin manager. It supports Luarocks dependencies and uses native packages.

Vim

• vim-plug (35230 stars) is a simple plugin manager that supports parallel installations / upgrades.
• Vundle (24023 stars) is short for Vim Bundle and is a plugin manager for Vim. It works with Pathogen compatible vim plugins.
• spf13-vim (15560 stars) is Steve Francia’s Vim distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim.
• Pathogen (12152 stars) is a plugin manager for Vim.
• Janus (7876 stars) is a distribution of plugins and mappings for Vim, Gvim and MacVim.
• Neobundle (2296 stars) is a next generation Vim plugin manager.
• dotvim (150 stars) is a community driven framework for vim.

Shell

• Starship Prompt (51070 stars) is a context-aware and highly customizable prompt for any shell. Has out-of-the-box support for Bash, Fish, PowerShell, Zsh, and more.
• Liquid Prompt (4589 stars) is a full-featured and carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash and ZSH.
• sheldon (1255 stars) A fast, configurable, shell plugin manager

Bash

• bash-it (14713 stars) is a “shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh,” but for bash.
• Oh My Bash (6883 stars) is a bash-shell framework inspired by oh-my-zsh and bash-it.

Fish

• Oh My Fish (11018 stars) is a fish-shell framework inspired by oh-my-zsh.
• Fisher (8635 stars) is a package manager for the fish shell.

ZSH

• oh-my-zsh (181336 stars) is a community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration. It bundles 40+ plugins and 80+ themes.
• awesome-zsh-plugins (16779 stars) is a list of ZSH plugins, themes and completions compatible with Zsh frameworks like antigen, oh-my-zsh and zgenom.
• Prezto (14315 stars) is a configuration framework for ZSH. It’s a lightweight alternative to oh-my-zsh with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, prompt themes and dozens of well documented modules.
• antigen (8244 stars) is a framework for using plugins and themes in your ZSH configuration. It will automatically clone repositories containing the plugins you’re using without you having to manually create submodules or clones, and supports using oh-my-zsh plugins and themes as well as ones published as separate repositories.
• zplug (5954 stars) is a next-generation plugin manager for ZSH. There is more to a ZSH plugin manager than increasing its speed. Also, there is nothing that zplug cannnot do.
• zgen (1512 stars) is a lightweight plugin manager for ZSH inspired by Antigen. The goal is to have a minimal overhead when starting up the shell because nobody likes waiting. Zgen will also automatically handle cloning repositories for plugins you’re using without you manually maintaining submodules or clones, and can use oh-my-zsh and Prezto compliant plugins and themes. zgen is no longer being maintained, we recommend switching to use the zgenom fork.
• antidote (1236 stars) is a feature-complete Zsh implementation of the legacy Antibody plugin manager, which in turn was derived from Antigen. Antidote not only aims to provide continuity for those legacy plugin managers, but also to delight new users with high-performance, easy-to-use Zsh plugin management.
• zsh-quickstart-kit (849 stars) A quickstart for ZSH and zgenom. It includes a zgenom setup, a starter list of plugins, the zsh-users/zsh-completions collection, and the powerlevel10k theme.
• slimzsh (610 stars) is a small starter framework for ZSH that features the pure prompt, syntax highlighting and tab completion.
• zgenom (400 stars) is a lightweight plugin manager for ZSH that is a superset of zgen. It provides simple commands for managing plugins. It clones and installs your plugins and generates a static init script that will source them for you every time you run the shell. We do this to save some startup time by not having to execute time consuming logic (plugin checking, updates, etc) every time a new shell session is started. While this means that you have to manually check for updates (zgenom update) and reset the init script (zgenom reset) whenever you add or remove plugins, it lets us have a minimal overhead when starting up the shell because nobody likes waiting. Zgenom can use oh-my-zsh and Prezto compliant plugins and themes.