Any built-in way of auto installing dev plugins?

[MunifTanjim]

Auto-installing dev=true plugins is useful when setting up a new machine or when starting fresh. Is it possible right now? Or is it planned? Otherwise user will need to either manually clone those plugins or write Lua codes to do it automatically.

Currently I'm doing this:

local local_git_dir = vim.fn.expand("$HOME/Dev")
local git_host_by_provider = {
  github = "github.com",
}

local function make_local(spec)
  if type(spec) == "string" then
    spec = { spec }
  end

  local git_provider = spec.git_provider
  if not git_provider or not git_host_by_provider[git_provider] then
    git_provider = "github"
  end

  local plugin_dir = string.format("%s/%s/%s", local_git_dir, git_provider, spec[1])
  local plugin_url = string.format("https://%s/%s", git_host_by_provider[git_provider], spec[1])
  if not vim.loop.fs_stat(plugin_dir) then
    vim.fn.system({ "git", "clone", plugin_url, plugin_dir })
  end

  spec.dev = true
  spec.dir = plugin_dir
  spec.url = plugin_url

  return spec
end

local plugins = {
  -- ...
  make_local({
    "MunifTanjim/nougat.nvim",
    config = function()
      require("config.plugins.nougat")
    end,
  }),
  -- ...
}

[filipekiss]

If you set fallback = true in the dev section when configuring lazy, it will clone the repository if it does not exists:

require("lazy").setup("plugins", {
	dev = {
		--  the rest of your dev config here like path and patterns
		fallback = true
	}
})