What Is "This Week in Neovim" on Dotfyle?

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"This Week in Neovim" is Dotfyle's Neovim news column. It rounds up recent plugin releases, community updates, and articles, and you can read past issues, subscribe by email, or follow its RSS feed. Use it if you want a periodic digest of what's new in the Neovim ecosystem rather than searching for plugins one by one.

What the column covers

Each issue collects developments from across the Neovim community. The issue list visible on Dotfyle shows the range of topics:

Issue Date Sample topics
#80 1/6/2025 25 most popular plugins published during the end of 2024, YouTube playlists for Neovim conf and VimConf 2024
#79 10/8/2024 Official Supermaven code completion in Neovim, a menu UI for Neovim, NvChad UI collection, reactive UI development
#78 9/22/2024 NeovimConf speaker applications, render-markdown.nvim, telescope-frecency.nvim, smart-open.nvim, avante.nvim
#77 8/6/2024 Neovim as the most admired editor, live markdown preview with markview.nvim, session management with persistance.nvim, music-controls.nvim

The pattern is consistent: plugin spotlights, tooling news, and community events. If you want to know which plugins are gaining attention or what happened at a Neovim conference, this is where it's summarized.

How to get updates

Three ways, depending on how you prefer to consume news:

  • Read past issues on the site — browse the issue list to catch up on anything you missed. Each entry shows the issue number, date, and a short topic summary.
  • Email newsletter — enter your email address on the site to receive a message when a new issue is available.
  • RSS feed — listed in the site's sitemap alongside other feeds, for readers who prefer a feed reader.

The email signup and RSS options are both presented on the site; neither is described as requiring payment or a login.

Where it fits in Dotfyle

"This Week in Neovim" sits alongside Dotfyle's other sections, which are organized around discovery rather than news:

  • Plugins — trending, top, and new plugins, plus a search.
  • Colorschemes — trending, top, and new colorschemes.
  • Configurations — a searchable collection of Neovim configs, filterable by plugin manager, plugins, or language servers.
  • Guides — how-tos such as automatically creating a README for your Neovim config or adding a plugin-usage badge.

So if your goal is to find a plugin, use the plugin or configuration search. If your goal is to keep up with the ecosystem, use "This Week in Neovim."

Practical notes

  • The site reports 2,686 plugins, 7,000 developers, and 100,527 plugin installations, so the news column is drawing from a fairly active index.
  • Issue dates in the visible list run from August 2024 to January 2025, which tells you the cadence is roughly biweekly to monthly rather than strictly weekly despite the name.
  • If you only want plugin recommendations, the "trending plugins" and "new plugins" lists may serve you faster than reading an issue end to end.