How to configure alpha.nvim?

Question

I have an init.lua file that contains: require "user.setup.alpha" as in:

  require "user.options"    
  require "user.keymaps"    
  require "user.autocmds"    
  require "user.commands"    
  require "user.plugins"    
  require "user.colorschemes"    
  require "user.setup.cmp"    
  require "user.setup.alpha"    
  require "user.setup.telescope"    
  require "user.setup.treesitter"    
  require "user.setup.autopairs"    
  require "user.setup.comment"    
  require "user.setup.gitsigns"    
  require "user.setup.neo-tree"    
  require "user.setup.bufferline"    
  require "user.setup.better-escape"    
  require "user.setup.notify"    
  require "user.setup.lualine"    
  require "user.setup.whichkey"    
  require "user.setup.hop"    
  require "user.setup.lsp"    
  require "user.setup.dap.debug"    
  require "user.setup.semantic"

And the alpha.lua file is:

 local status_ok, alpha = pcall(require, "alpha")    
 if not status_ok then                                        
   return    
 end    
     
 alpha.setup { 
   theme = "dashboard"                                          
 }

But when I type in the :source command it shows an error message.

I could not copy paste the error message. So I wrote it roughly down here:

Expected table got nil

I also tried having this line instead:

alpha.setup()

But the error remained the same.

The plugin is installed with:

use "goolord/alpha-nvim"

I'm on NVIM v0.6.1

Could you please give your full init.lua? I can help – Thieu Nguyen Apr 23 '22 at 03:40 — Thieu Nguyen, Apr 23 '22 at 03:40
I added it in the question. – Stephane Apr 23 '22 at 10:54 — Stephane, Apr 23 '22 at 10:54

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 07 '22 at 21:38

I could solve the issue with my following configuration:

  local status_ok, alpha = pcall(require, "alpha")                                       
  if not status_ok then
    return
  end
                                                                                                                                                 
 local theme_ok, alpha_theme = pcall(require, "alpha.themes.startify")                                                                          
 if not theme_ok then                                                                                                                           
   return                                                                                                                                       
 end

 alpha.setup(alpha_theme.config)

How to configure alpha.nvim?

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