NyaoVim is a web-enhanced extensible Neovim frontend.
NyaoVim contains the Neovim editor as Web Component and enables to extend its UI with web technology as recent modern editors and IDE.
NyaoVim consists of Web Components on Electron.
nyao’ is ‘meow’ in Japanese and its pronounce resembles ‘neo’. It’s also an acronym for ‘Not Yet Another Original’.
Key Features
- Bundles no extended UI by default. It only provides the nice UI plugin architecture. Users can compose their favorite UI with Web Components, HTML and CSS.
- Doesn’t introduce another plugin manager.
- UI component creators can use powerful APIs, packages and tools; Node.js APIs, Electron APIs, Neovim msgpack-rpc APIs), so many npm packages and Chrome DevTools.
- UI plugins are easily installed.
- Full screen mode support.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Website: github.com/rhysd/NyaoVim
Support:
Developer: rhysd and contributors
License: MIT License
NyaoVim is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Neovim GUIs | Language | |
|---|---|---|
| Neovim-qt | Neovim client library and GUI using Qt5 | C++ |
| GoNeovim | Forked from Gonvim. Uses Qt binding | Go |
| FVim | Uses the Avalonia XAML-based UI framework | F# |
| Neovide | No nonsense client | Rust |
| GNvim | Rich GUI without any web bloat | Rust |
| NVUI | Modern frontend | C++ |
| glrnvim | GPU-accelerated Neovim GUI | Rust |
| NyaoVim | Web-enhanced extensible Neovim frontend | TypeScript |
| neovim-gtk | Uses gtk-rs bindings | Rust |
| Neoray | Uses GLFW and OpenGL bindings | Go |
| Envim | Electron-based frontend for Neovim | TypeScript |
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