How I set up a new macOS machine development

This is a reference for myself or whoever may find it useful for the way I set up my development tools on a fresh install of macOS or a new laptop. The steps outlined were last run through on Nov 16 2022 running macOS 13.01 on a laptop with an Apple M2 chip.

Checklist

• install terminal emulator, iTerm2 - iTerm2 website
  • Change iTerm2 profile to use solarized colors in settings
  • Use natural profile for moving between words - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136928/using-alt-cmd-right-left-arrow-in-iterm
• Install xcode command line tools xcode-select --install
• Install package manager for macOS, brew - Homebrew
• Authenticate machine with GitHub, create ssh key and add to github - Github guide
• Install a terminal multiplexer, install brew install tmux - Github repo
• Make zsh awesome out of the box, install Oh My Zsh - ohmyzsh website
  • install powerline fonts - https://github.com/powerline/fonts
• vim
  • create ~/.tmp/ directory for vim
  • Use the same keys to navigate between tmux panes and vim buffers, install vim-tmux-navigator - https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator
  • For file tree browsing, install vim nerdtree plugin - https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree
  • solarized theme plugin - https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized
  • We need fuzzy file finding, install vim ctrl-p plugin - https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
• ruby
  • Simple utility to change ruby versions, brew install chruby
  • We need a way to install ruby versions, brew install ruby-install
  • Install latest ruby ruby-install 3.1.2. If you're running macOS 13 you may need to add the -- --enable-shared option.
• golang
  • Golang version manager inspired by rvm, install gvm - https://github.com/moovweb/gvm
  • Install latest go gvm install go1.19.3. For whatever reason, on macOS 13 I needed to first install go via brew install go, then install the desired version, then "cleanup" with brew install go. I think this is because brew has a compiled binary for darwin/arm64 which is required for the initial install, but it's better to use gvm afterwards.
• node
  • Node version manager inspired by rvm, install nvm - https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#intro
  • install latest LTS release nvm install --lts
  • install yarn npm install --global yarn
• symlink dotfiles from this repo into homefolder, for example, from homefolder: ln -s src/github.com/aprofeit/dotfiles/zshrc .zshrc
• Faster navigation of directories, install brew install autojump

This is the rough guide to provide you a ruby/golang/javascript dev environment that exists solely in the terminal and can look like this