I'm using stow to mange symlinks from ~/dotfiles to their respective locations. Installing stow on arch (btw):

sudo pacman -S stow

When adding new files (or setting up my dotfiles), place the repo at $HOME/dotfiles and then run:

stow .

to generate the symlinks. Anything in .stow-local-ignore is ignored (like .git and README.md etc.).

Configuration in .zshrc. I'm using oh-my-zsh. For installing see: https://ohmyz.sh/.

Installation of oh-my-zsh plugins:

# zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting   

# zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions       

# powerlevel10k
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

I've aliased ls to eza ... with options for color and grouping. Aliases cd to zoxide (using shell integration).

Install packages used in .zshrc:

sudo pacman -S eza ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd alacritty zoxide