How to get neovim to use nvim-tree instead of netrw?

Question

I am trying to setup nvim-tree in my neovim plugins. I am using the Lazy package manager and I am using someone elses config as a guide on github.

In my Lazy options, I have netrw in teh disabled_plugins section and I am importing my plugins directory which contains the nvim-tree plugin, but my neovim is still using netrw and not nvim-tree. I'm not getting any error messages or anything so I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong.

Here are some of the files that I think are relevant to this problem:

This is nvim/lua/moorby/lazy.lua:

local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({
    "git",
    "clone",
    "--filter=blob:none",
    "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git",
    "--branch=stable", -- latest stable release
    lazypath,
  })
end
vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)

local opts = {
    defaults = {
        lazy = true,
    },
    install = {
        colorscheme = { "monokai" }
    },
    rtp = {
        disabled_plugins = {
            "gzip",
            "matchit",
            "matchparen",
            "netrw",
            "netrwplugin",
            "tarplugin",
            "tohtml",
            "tutor",
            "zipplugin",
        }
    },
    change_detection = {
        enabled = true,
        notify = true,
    },
}

require("lazy").setup(
    {
        {import = "moorby.plugins"}
    },
    opts
)

nvim/lua/moorby/plugins/nvim-tree.lua

return {
    "nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua",
    filters = {
        dotfiles = true,
    },
    lazy = false
}

nvim/lua/moorby/plugins/colorscheme.lua (my colorscheme is loading fine by the way)

return {
  "tanvirtin/monokai.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 999,
  config = {},
}

In this screenshot, you can see netrw in the background and you can see that nvim-tree has been successfully loaded by Lazy:

EDIT: I just noticed that the plugin being imported is nvim-tree.LUA not nvim-tree.NVIM but I tried to change this and it does not work so I think .lua is still correct and that is definitely the URL of the repo.

Answer 1

In your configuration, you need to call setup function for the nvim-tree.lua plugin and you could also disable netrw in init.lua => see "Setup" section in https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua

-- disable netrw at the very start of your init.lua
vim.g.loaded_netrw = 1
vim.g.loaded_netrwPlugin = 1

nvim/lua/moorby/plugins/nvim-tree.lua:

return {
    "nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua",
    config = function()
        require("nvim-tree").setup({
            filters = {
                dotfiles = true,
            },
            lazy = false
        })
    end,
}