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My Development Setup for OS X

Principles

  • Never use sudo. Once you run a command with sudo, future commands are probably gonna be fucked up as well.
  • Automatically start all services. Don't bother keeping track a bunch of terminals running processes.
  • Don't shoot yourself in the foot.

XCode Command Line Tools

First, install XCode's command line tools.

xcode-select --install

If you're actually going to use XCode, just install it from the App Store and do the whole shebang.

Install Homebrew

Homebrew is OS X's package manager. It makes setting up all your services very easy.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install everything

Install everything with Homebrew. Here are some packages you might be interested in right now:

# install everythings in the list
./brewfile
# and some others

Once in a while, I run brew prune and brew doctor to keep my computer in check.

Install node.js with nvm

once nvm is installed with brewFile install the version of node.js you use:

nvm install <%version%>

To make sure each terminal uses the version of node you want:

# This loads nvm
[ -s "/Users/userNAME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "/Users/userNAME/.nvm/nvm.sh" 

# automaticaly right use node version when .nvmrc is detected
nvmautouse() {
    if [ -r .nvmrc ]; then
        nvm use
    fi
}
# load nvm whenever a terminal starts
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
# load the version of nvm you want
nvm use <%version%>

In each project don't forget to add a .nmvrc to specified node version

thefuck?

thefuck is a nifty tool that allows you to fix your previous CLI typos by just typing fuck.

Installing it is easy:

brew install thefuck

Then alias it as fuck (or whatever you want) manually by adding this line to your ~/.bash_profile:

alias fuck='$(thefuck $(fc -ln -1))'

git

git by default doesn't have autocompletion on OS X. Super easy to install it:

brew install bash-completion

Then add this line to your ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion
fi

Setting up databases

Homebrew makes setting up databases super easy. First step - install it with Homebrew:

brew install redis

Then you'll see information on your terminal like the following:

To reload redis after an upgrade:
    launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
    launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
    redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

To read this information again, just type brew info redis. All I do is copy and paste the first 2 commands listed. Voila! redis-server will always be running! You won't have to open a bunch of terminals to keep it running!

Rinse and repeat for all your databases.

brew options

A lot of packages on Homebrew have terrible defaults. I haven't bothered making a PR to update these defaults, mostly because I don't have a reason to change the defaults other than, "why not?"

For example, type the following:

brew options ffmpeg

You're probably overloaded with options. Fun isn't it? Supposedly, once you install a package with homebrew using specific options, future updates will use the same options. I haven't found that to be the case - I have to reinstall ffmpeg many times - but I'm not going to try reproducing it.

Have fun reading all the option info and typing commands like:

brew install ffmpeg --with-faac --with-libssh --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-openssl --with-opus --with-theora --with-webp --with-x265

Not only will this install all the dependencies like webp, it will make sure you can pretty much throw anything at ffmpeg.

You'll probably have to do the same with imagemagick and/or graphicsmagick.

Other Tools

  • iStat Menus - help me figure out if something's taking too much CPU, RAM, or network
  • Atom - the best text editor :D
  • Sublime Text - the second best text editor
  • VirtualBox - for VMs, which can't be install using Homebrew