Dependency-assist.nvim

This project is ARCHIVED and no longer maintained. I've decided to massively narrow down the scope of to focus on providing version information for dart and flutter rather than the original goal of a generalised API for dependency management. I think the current appetite and approach in the nvim plugin space as of 11/2020 is for language specific plugins that handle dependencies e.g.

package-info.nvim crates.nvim

So I will start work on pubspec-assist.nvim when I get some time which will provide similar functionality but focused on dart dependency management.

Hopefully someone else will try again with a generalised approach but think it will be a lot more work than I would personally want to take on again, since maintaining dependency management for languages you don't use is a pain.

Introduction

Inspired by pubspec assist a vscode dart plugin for getting version information for packages, and by vim-crates, a vim plugin for visualising dependency versions.

Dependency assist is a neovim plugin written in lua, which is designed to help you find out which dependencies are up to date and add new ones to your dependency file.

status: Alpha

Dependency versions using virtual text

Supported languages

• Dart
• Rust (not 100% complete yet)

Requirements

• Nightly Neovim

Installation

Plug 'akinsho/dependency-assist.nvim'

Then in your init.vim somewhere after loading the plugin call

lua << EOF
  require'dependency_assist'.setup{}
EOF

Usage

AddDependency/AddDevDependency

These commands are buffer specific and only added within a supported file. For now this is any dart file or a pubspec.yaml.

This plugin works by showing you the current version of a dependency if it differs from the version you have.

It also provides AddDependency and AddDevDependency commands within a supported filetype. These commands open an input buffer which on hitting Enter is used to search pub.dev for matching packages.

It then returns a list of matches and on selecting them they will be added to your devDependencies or your dependencies depending on what you selected.

UpdateDependencyLine

Whilst inside a dependency file (pubspec.yaml for now) whilst on a line where there is a new version available UpdateDependencyLine will swap the current version for the latest.

Goals

This plugin was designed to be extensible 🤞. Hopefully adding a module for other compatible languages shouldn't be too much work.

This won't scale to all languages, and tbh I'm going to focus my energy on languages I use. If you are interested in contributing a module for the language you use, open an issue.