diff --git a/docs/release-notes/rl-0.6.md b/docs/release-notes/rl-0.6.md
index 061555f1..01fbe62f 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/rl-0.6.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes/rl-0.6.md
@@ -48,3 +48,7 @@ Release notes for release 0.6
 [elijahimmer](https://github.com/elijahimmer)
 
 - Added rose-pine theme
+
+[frothymarrow](https://github.com/frothymarrow)
+
+- Added option `vim.luaPackages` to wrap neovim with extra Lua packages.
diff --git a/lib/lua.nix b/lib/lua.nix
index 55e22d37..708b4647 100644
--- a/lib/lua.nix
+++ b/lib/lua.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Helpers for converting values to lua
 {lib}: let
   inherit (lib) mapAttrsToList filterAttrs concatStringsSep concatMapStringsSep stringToCharacters boolToString;
-  inherit (builtins) hasAttr head;
+  inherit (builtins) hasAttr head throw typeOf;
 in rec {
   # Convert a null value to lua's nil
   nullString = value:
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ in rec {
     then lib.boolToString exp # if bool, convert to string
     else if builtins.isInt exp
     then builtins.toString exp # if int, convert to string
+    else if exp == null
+    then "nil"
     else (builtins.toJSON exp); # otherwise jsonify the value and print as is
 
   # convert list to a lua table
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ in rec {
     then "${toString args}"
     else if builtins.isInt args
     then "${toString args}"
-    else if (args != null)
+    else if (args == null)
     then "nil"
-    else "";
+    else throw "could not convert object of type `${typeOf args}` to lua object";
 }
diff --git a/modules/core/build/default.nix b/modules/core/build/default.nix
index 3b88e648..bbd634ce 100644
--- a/modules/core/build/default.nix
+++ b/modules/core/build/default.nix
@@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ in {
         '';
       };
 
+      luaPackages = mkOption {
+        type = types.listOf types.str;
+        default = [];
+        description = ''
+          List of lua packages to install.
+        '';
+      };
+
       globals = mkOption {
         default = {};
         description = "Set containing global variable values";
diff --git a/modules/default.nix b/modules/default.nix
index 31cf87dd..c9703b90 100644
--- a/modules/default.nix
+++ b/modules/default.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ inputs: {
 
   vimOptions = module.config.vim;
 
+  extraLuaPackages = ps: map (x: ps.${x}) vimOptions.luaPackages;
+
   buildPlug = {pname, ...} @ args:
     assert lib.asserts.assertMsg (pname != "nvim-treesitter") "Use buildTreesitterPlug for building nvim-treesitter.";
       buildVimPlugin (args
@@ -59,6 +61,8 @@ inputs: {
     inherit (vimOptions) viAlias;
     inherit (vimOptions) vimAlias;
 
+    inherit extraLuaPackages;
+
     configure = {
       customRC = vimOptions.builtConfigRC;