vim-plug

sting and helpful have been the following: NERDTree (shows your project's structure. Similar to what you would find in sublime or any modern IDE) NERDcommenter (allows you to comment/uncomment lines or groups of lines automatically) CtrlP (fuzzy search of files in your current folder or subfolders, or inside the current repository) ultisnips (snippets) vim-surround (allows you to insert parentheses, brackets, quotes, etc. around the selected area) auto-pairs (or something equivalent. Basically, creating the closing bracket, quote, etc. every time you open bracket, quote, etc.) vim-easymotion (this is a very interesting plugin. I would recommend that you check it out to get an idea of what it does. It's useful when trying to navigate around the screen) syntastic (syntax checker for multiple languages) tagbar (if you enjoy having a small summary of all the functions and variables in the current file, this is for you) supertab (vim uses c-p and c-n to complete words in insert mode. supertab allows you to complete with tab instead of c-p and c-n. If you are used to using tab in other editors, this will help you) vim-fugitive (quite nice if you are use git. Helps you comparing newer and older revisions, for example. You can open a modified file with vim, write :Gdiff and get the uncommited changes) youcompleteme (the best code completion tool available. Has very good context completion) vim-colorschemes (a collection of a million different colorschemes to try) vim-hybrid (my favorite dark colorscheme by far)