My macOS Setup for Developers

— Sanket Sahu

Old system

• Copy .ssh folder, .zshrc aliases
• VSCode > Upload settings on Settings Sync.

New system

• Paste .ssh folder, .zshrc aliases.
• Move the projects folder. If not, you might need .env from your local projects.sa
• iCloud login restores Desktop, Documents etc.
• Open Safari > Install Brave
• Brave Login will sync all the extensions, password, bookmarks
• Install Slack
• Install Discord
• Install Notion
• Install Adobe Creative Cloud
• Photoshop CC
• Adobe XD
• Install VSCode
• Install Settings Sync
• Download plugins using Settings Sync: a80e2cd6d6465a9a3bef09497da7d175 There are over 45 VSCode plugins.
• Install brew
• To install iTerm, follow these steps.
• Customise iTerm from this gist: (ZSH_THEME="agnoster", Source Code Pro...)
• https://gist.github.com/kevin-smets/8568070
• ☝️That will install Developer tools
• Settings > Appearance > General > Theme > Minimal (I love this one)
• OhMyZsh plugins that I use
• git zsh-autosuggestions laravel npm copyfile copydir common-aliases composer gitignore
• Utilities
• Fix the home / end keys on Mac http://www.evansweb.info/2005/03/24/mac-os-x-and-home-end-keys/
• Keyboard Shortcut to Zoom the current window: Setup Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcuts > Cmd + Alt + = to “Zoom”
• Dato
• CopyClip (not using any more)
• Magnet
• https://pliim.app/ (not using any more)
• Install
• homebrew (install ruby, python - I guess)
• Node / npm
• Yarn
• PHP / Composer / Apache (maybe)
• PHP 7.3 for Catalina https://stackoverflow.com/a/59446276/213767 PHP for Monterey https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-monterey-apache-multiple-php-versions
• phpMyAdmin
• Install Xcode
• Get simulators
• Install React Native
• Install Flutter

Get started

• mkdir ~/projects
• Clone repos