zplug/zplug

Features

• Zsh Plugin Managers - A dedicated manager for installing, organizing, and loading community plugins, themes, and scripts for the Zsh shell.
• Shell Plugin Automation - Automates the entire process of downloading and loading Zsh-specific plugins and themes.
• Shell Startup Optimizers - Reduces terminal initialization time by deferring the loading of non-essential extensions.
• Zsh Frameworks - Provides a framework for managing the installation and updating of Zsh-specific tools from remote repositories.
• Version Pinning - Allows pinning plugins to specific git branches, tags, or commit hashes to ensure stable and reproducible environments.
• Development Environment Reproducibility - Ensures the command line behaves identically across different machines by pinning plugin versions and branches.
• Dependency Graph Resolution - Resolves inter-plugin requirements to ensure an optimized loading order and prevent dependency conflicts.
• Plugin Installation and Management - Automates the deployment of plugins and themes from remote repositories and local paths.
• Shell Plugin Provisioning - Automates the deployment of shell plugins and themes from remote repositories and local paths.
• Lazy Loading - Implements a lazy loading system that defers plugin initialization until the associated commands are actually used.
• Deferred Plugin Loading - Implements a system to delay the activation of plugins until a specific command is first invoked, optimizing startup speed.
• Binary Distributions - Distributes precompiled binaries for the shell and integrates them into the system path.
• Parallel Installations - Downloads and installs multiple shell extensions concurrently to reduce the total environment setup time.
• Plugin Lifecycle Hooks - Provides a mechanism to execute custom shell scripts automatically during plugin installation, updating, or initial loading.
• Package Dependency Management - Ensures required plugins are installed and loaded in the correct order through dependency resolution.
• Package Dependency Managers - Allows defining prerequisite packages that must be active before a dependent plugin is loaded.
• Conditional - Installs and activates plugins only when specific runtime boolean shell conditions are satisfied.
• Version Control Integrations - Integrates with version control systems to enable installation of specific git branches, tags, or commit hashes.
• Installation Hooks - Executes specialized automation scripts specifically after a package installation or update has completed.
• Shell Conditionals - Evaluates shell-specific boolean expressions to determine whether plugins should be installed or loaded during startup.
• Lifecycle Hook Executions - Allows users to define functions that run automatically before or after plugin lifecycle events.
• Automatic Path Mapping - Downloads external binary artifacts and automatically appends their directories to the system path for immediate use.
• Binary PATH Mappings - Automatically maps downloaded external binary artifacts to the system PATH for immediate terminal use.
• Custom Installers - Supports custom installation and loading logic to integrate plugins from non-standard remote or local services.
• Shell Environments - Next-generation plugin manager for Zsh.

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