Top 14 Shell Minimal Projects

pure

17 12,828 4.5 Shell

Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt (by sindresorhus)

Project mention: Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22

Beyond zprof (https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/zsh-profiling) not really I'm afraid. I did the majority of my zsh-prompt hacking 10 years ago and haven't thought about it since. That snippet could be from anywhere.
You could peek at something like zprezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto or pure https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure for tips.
Fetching git/hg/... info is always slow, so try and speed that up where you can (as to how to do that, uhh... I know my prompt has a dirty-state check nicked from pure for speed reasons). You can also cache any `asdf init zsh` or similar to a file and do the same "run in background" trick so the next shell will have any changes.
The biggest improvement I can remember was dropping zprezto for my own much smaller config, I really did not need much comparatively. Mostly some git info and "good default" options. I use zgenom for a plugin manager but only have 3 plugins, probably I should just dump it and inline the plugins to avoid getting owned one day.

dotfiles

1 416 0.0 Shell

My personal linux dotfiles (by b4skyx)
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
raspberrypi-ua-netinst

1 213 6.0 Shell

RaspberryPi (minimal) unattended netinstaller
Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide

28 173 0.0 Shell

Guide to install KDE Plasma desktop environment on a minimal Fedora installation
lean

1 154 3.6 Shell

Pretty, minimal, one-line, fast ZSH prompt (by miekg)
lucid.fish

2 138 0.0 Shell

Minimalist, high-performance fish prompt
mpvc

2 80 9.7 Shell

An mpc-like interface to control mpv from the terminal + extra goodies 🚀 (by gmt4)

Project mention: Show HN: Mpvc-TUI – A minimal mpc-like CLI and TUI for controlling mpv (repost) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-21

SaaSHub

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dotfiles

1 59 5.1 Shell

Efficiency meets aesthetics, my dotfiles are fine-tuned for a seamless Linux experience. Take control of your system with this clean, minimalistic configuration. 🚀 (by Speyll)
mini-prompt

5 35 5.0 Shell

🦊 Minimal and versatile bash prompt
polybar-minimal-nord-theme

1 23 2.7 Shell

Minimal polybar nord theme configuration.
minimal

1 7 0.9 Shell

A minimal fork of subnixr's minimal prompt theme. (by zimfw)
thepkg

3 6 0.0 Shell

{STILL IN PROGRESS} simple package manager powered by tar
archlinux-installer-script

28 1 2.4 Shell

Arch Linux install script. Only performs the minimal steps for booting into arch. 75 lines of script with full progress messages and tutorial.

Project mention: When will STEAM OS become public distro? | /r/Steam | 2023-12-07

simpl

1 1 0.0 Shell

Simple, pretty, minimal, customizable and fast ZSH prompt (by eduarbo)
SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Minimal projects in Shell? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	pure	12,828
2	dotfiles	416
3	raspberrypi-ua-netinst	213
4	Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide	173
5	lean	154
6	lucid.fish	138
7	mpvc	80
8	dotfiles	59
9	mini-prompt	35
10	polybar-minimal-nord-theme	23
11	minimal	7
12	thepkg	6
13	archlinux-installer-script	1
14	simpl	1