My .zshrc may not suit your needs. Feel free to read and understand. Steal anything. My opinion is that you can't have an universal .zshrc. If you don't agree, take a look at Prezto.

You need to create your own .zshrc. First solution is to symlink ~/.zsh/zshrc. The other solution is to source ~/.zsh/zshrc from your own ~/.zshrc. The later case allows you to set the plugin you want to enable.

You can copy your installation to a remote host with install-zsh function.

~/.zsh/run contains runtime files, like history. ~/.zsh/local contains local files that should not be copied to a remote host.

I am targetting compatibility with Zsh 5.0.2 (the one in CentOS 7, 5.0.7 is in Jessie). Notably, I cannot use local array=(el1 el2), as this is only allowed since Zsh 5.1.

If you are one of those young people not concerned about arbitrary code execution, you can do:

curl -sL https://github.com/vincentbernat/zshrc/releases/download/latest/zsh-install.sh | sh

All the code is licensed as CC0 1.0 Universal.