Terminal Tools and Fonts

Neovim is a terminal based application and Kitty Terminal is highly recommended.

File system search and other system information based features presented in AstroNvim relies on external command line tools.

Language Server Protocol servers, format and lint tools managed by Mason often require Nodejs to install & run.

Kitty Terminal

Kitty Terminal provides multiple shell tabs, Nerd fonts, web icons and graphics support too, so is an excellent choice for running Neovim. Kitty is available on all good operating systems.

Kitty Terminal - Practicalli Engineering Playbook

Command line tools

• ripgrep fast text search tool
• fzf fuzzy finder
• gdu disk usage analyzer
• bottom (btm) graphical process/system monitor for the terminal

Debian packagesHomebrew

Install fzf, gdu and node.js via debian package manager

apt install ripgrep fzf gdu

Install ripgrep, fzf, gdu and node.js via Homebrew package manager

brew install ripgrep fzf gdu nodejs

Install btm from its GitHub repository release page

Nodejs

AstroNvim uses Mason to install LSP servers, format and lint tools. Many LSP servers require node.js to install and function.

Node.js install - Practicalli Engineering Playbook