Added dashboard plugin alpha.nvim

after/plugin/alpha.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+local status_ok, alpha = pcall(require, "alpha")
+if not status_ok then
+	return
+end
+
+local dashboard = require("alpha.themes.dashboard")
+local cdir = vim.fn.getcwd()
+
+math.randomseed(os.time())
+
+local function pick_color()
+	local colors = { "String", "Identifier", "Keyword", "Number" }
+	return colors[math.random(#colors)]
+end
+
+local function footer()
+	local total_plugins = #vim.tbl_keys(packer_plugins)
+	local datetime = os.date(" %d-%m-%Y   %H:%M:%S")
+	local version = vim.version()
+	local nvim_version_info = "   v" .. version.major .. "." .. version.minor .. "." .. version.patch
+
+	return datetime .. "   " .. total_plugins .. " plugins" .. nvim_version_info
+end
+
+local logo = {
+	"                                                     ",
+	"  ███╗   ██╗███████╗ ██████╗ ██╗   ██╗██╗███╗   ███╗ ",
+	"  ████╗  ██║██╔════╝██╔═══██╗██║   ██║██║████╗ ████║ ",
+	"  ██╔██╗ ██║█████╗  ██║   ██║██║   ██║██║██╔████╔██║ ",
+	"  ██║╚██╗██║██╔══╝  ██║   ██║╚██╗ ██╔╝██║██║╚██╔╝██║ ",
+	"  ██║ ╚████║███████╗╚██████╔╝ ╚████╔╝ ██║██║ ╚═╝ ██║ ",
+	"  ╚═╝  ╚═══╝╚══════╝ ╚═════╝   ╚═══╝  ╚═╝╚═╝     ╚═╝ ",
+	"                                                     ",
+}
+
+dashboard.section.header.val = logo
+dashboard.section.header.opts.hl = pick_color()
+
+dashboard.section.buttons.val = {
+	dashboard.button("t", "🌳 NvimTree", ":NvimTreeToggle<CR>"),
+	dashboard.button("c", "✨ Change Theme", "<cmd>Telescope colorscheme<CR>"),
+	dashboard.button(
+		"f",
+		"🔎 Find Files",
+		"<cmd>Telescope find_files<CR>"
+	),
+	dashboard.button("p", "✅ PackerSync", ":PackerSync<CR>"),
+	dashboard.button("q", "🛑 Quit NVIM", ":qa<CR>"),
+}
+
+dashboard.section.footer.val = footer()
+dashboard.section.footer.opts.hl = "Constant"
+
+alpha.setup(dashboard.opts)
+
+vim.cmd([[ autocmd FileType alpha setlocal nofoldenable ]])

lua/taken/packer.lua

@@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ return packer.startup(function(use)
 	use("lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim")
 	use("f-person/git-blame.nvim")
 	-- useful plugins
+	use({
+		"goolord/alpha-nvim",
+		requires = { "nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons" },
+        config = function()
+            require("alpha").setup(require("alpha.themes.startify"))
+        end,
+	})
 	use({
 		"folke/which-key.nvim",
 		config = function()