Neovim is mostly backward compatible with Vim, and supports a huge number of Vim plugins (in fact, Neovim supports every plugin listed in this book except for Powerline).
However, since Neovim natively supports the implementation of asynchronous plugins and adds other developer-friendly features, there's a number of plugins that are only possible due to Neovim. It's worth mentioning that Vim added some of the features unique to Neovim in 8.0 (asynchronous plugin support) and 8.1 (Terminal mode) a few years after Neovim was created.
All of the following plugins (except for NyaoVim) were backported to Vim, but it's worth giving the Neovim community credit for the crea
tion of the plugins. The list is not in any way extensive, and might get out of date pretty quickly. The plugins are rated by popularity as of the time of writing of this book:
- Dein (https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim) is an asynchronous plugin manager, similar to vim-plug.
- Denite (https://github.com/Shougo/denite.nvim) is a fuzzy search plugin for everything, including buffers, lines in the current files, or even color schemes (effectively a CtrlP for everything). For instance, here's how a fuzzy completion for lines of code within a current file looks:
- NyaoVim (https://github.com/rhysd/NyaoVim) is a cross-platform web component-based GUI for Neovim. Its primary selling point is ease of extensibility and adding new UI plugins as web components.
- Neomake (https://github.com/neomake/neomake) is an asynchronous linter and compiler, that adds a file-type-aware asynchronous :Neomake command.
- Neoterm (https://github.com/kassio/neoterm) extends Vim/Neovim Terminal functionality, making it easier to reuse a single existing Terminal for running commands.
- NCM2 (https://github.com/ncm2/ncm2) is a robust and extensible code completion framework for Vim and Neovim.
- gen_tags (https://github.com/jsfaint/gen_tags.vim) is an asynchronous ctags and gtags generator. For reference, gtags is slightly more powerful than ctags, but limited to a smaller number of languages.