Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.

It can be run multiple times on the same machine safely. It installs, upgrades, or skips packages based on what is already installed on the machine.

Install

Download the script:

curl -o- -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/broadlume/dev-machine/master/install | bash

What it sets up

macOS tools:

• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.

Unix tools:

• Universal Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
• Git for version control
• [The Silver Searcher] for finding things in files
• Watchman for watching for filesystem events
• Zsh as your shell

GitHub tools:

• Hub for interacting with the GitHub API

Image tools:

• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:

• ASDF for managing programming language versions
• Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
• Node.js and NPM, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
• Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
• Yarn for managing JavaScript packages

It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depends on your machine).

Customize in ~/.laptop.local

Your ~/.laptop.local is run at the end of the Laptop script. Put your customizations there. For example:

#!/bin/sh

brew bundle --file=- <<EOF
brew "go"
EOF

fancy_echo "Cleaning up old Homebrew formulae ..."
brew cleanup
brew cask cleanup

Write your customizations such that they can be run safely more than once. See the mac script for examples.

Laptop functions such as fancy_echo and gem_install_or_update can be used in your ~/.laptop.local.

Contributing

Edit the mac file. Document in the README.md file. Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and [Syntastic].

brew install shellcheck