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.

Requirements

It supports:

• macOS Catalina (10.14)

Older versions may work but aren't tested.

Install

Download the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jkogara/laptop/master/mac

Review the script (avoid running scripts you haven't read!):

less mac

Execute the downloaded script:

sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log

Optionally, review the log:

less ~/laptop.log

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
• OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
• Watchman for watching for filesystem events
• Zsh as your shell

Image tools:

• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:

• Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
• Node.js and npm, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
• Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
• [rbenv] for managing ruby versions.
• [nodenv] for managing node versions.

Databases:

• [email protected] for storing relational data
• Redis for storing key-value data

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

License

Laptop is © 2011-2020 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.