MunifTanjim/nui.nvim

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2108 stars · 80 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

nui.nvim is a UI component library for Neovim written in Lua. It provides reusable building blocks like text, lines, tables, trees, popups, and layouts for constructing terminal user interfaces inside Neovim plugins.

Use cases

• build custom popups and floating windows in a neovim plugin
• render tree views inside neovim buffers
• create table-like structured output in neovim
• compose multi-panel layouts of popups in neovim
• add syntax-highlighted text and lines to buffers programmatically
• build a custom UI for a neovim plugin without raw vimscript

When to choose

• you are developing a Neovim plugin that needs popups, menus, trees, or tables
• you want a composable, well-tested Lua UI toolkit for Neovim 0.5+
• you need flexible layout management for multiple floating windows

When to avoid

• you need GUI components outside of Neovim
• you want a ready-made end-user plugin rather than a component library
• you target Vim or Neovim versions older than 0.5

Facets

library · maturity stable

ui-components developer-tools developer-tools text-editors cli cross-platform neovim neovim-plugin lua terminal-ui popup layout

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