return {
    -- lazy itself
    {
        'folke/lazy.nvim',
        version = '*'
    },


    {
        'jay-babu/mason-null-ls.nvim',
        lazy = true,
        dependencies = {
            'jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim',
            'williamboman/mason.nvim'
        }
    },


    -- misc

    {
        'j-hui/fidget.nvim',
        tag = "legacy"
    },

    {
        "folke/trouble.nvim",
        lazy = true,
        dependencies = "nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons",
    },

    -- Live Preview of MD
    {
        "iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim",
        cmd = { "MarkdownPreviewToggle", "MarkdownPreview", "MarkdownPreviewStop" },
        ft = { "markdown" },
        build = function() vim.fn["mkdp#util#install"]() end,
    },
    -- Need to short this out properly!
    -- learn this
    'tpope/vim-surround',
    -- differentiate brackets
    'luochen1990/rainbow',
    -- File tree
    'preservim/nerdtree',
    -- Distraction free writing
    'junegunn/goyo.vim',
    -- The Best Thing EVER
    'vimwiki/vimwiki',
    -- better comments
    'scrooloose/nerdcommenter',
    -- Show colours
    'ap/vim-css-color',
    -- Add snippets
    'honza/vim-snippets',
    -- highlight matching html tags
--    'valloric/matchtagalways',
    -- Syntax highlighting extension
    'sheerun/vim-polyglot',
}