Phresh 'n Clean

Wipe your hard drive clean and install your apps quickly.

The Preparation section will prevent you from losing important files, documents, and registration keys upon reinstallation.

The Wipe + Reinstall section will walk you through installing a phresh copy of OSX.

The Set Up section will walk you through getting your phresh machine up and running as quickly as possible.

The Application Installation section will walk you through installing your applications.

The Tasty Treats section will tell you some of our Liferay team members' top picks for applications and extensions.

Preparation

The Preparation section will prevent you from losing important files, documents, and application keys upon reinstalling OSX. The hard drive is completely erased during this process and taking the time to back up files and deauthorizing applications will ensure you have zero regrets after your phresh install.

1. Back Up

A fresh install of OS X will wipe any files, programs, and documents from your hard drive. Whether you use Time Machine, the Cloud, or an external hard drive, be sure to have a back up of anything you will need on your phresh machine. If you are using the cloud, make sure all files are finished syncing as well.

Resources

How To Clean Install MacOS High Sierra
Information from OSXDaily

2. Deauthorize

Your computer will be viewed as a new machine after the phresh install, which means that you will want to deauthorize any applications that required a registration key. Otherwise, the same key will not work when registering a product after the wipe and you might have to jump through hoops to get your product license back.

Resources

Make Your Mac Feel Like New Again With a Fresh Install of OSX
Information from Field Guide—Gizmodo

Wipe + Reinstall

The Wipe + Reinstall section will walk you through installing a phresh copy of OSX. When you are ready, you'll erase your hard drive and install the latest version of OSX. Once you are at this point, double-check that all necessary files, documents, pictures, and videos are backed up and all applications are deauthorized (as mentioned in the previous steps) because there is no going back after this step.

1. Wipe

You will be erasing your hard drive at this point. Once you have completed this step, your hard drive will be reformatted.

1. Make sure your computer is plugged into a power source.
2. Restart your computer and hold down ⌘ + R as soon as the reboot starts. If successful, you will be met by the OSX Utilities screen.
3. Select Disk Utility, select your Hard Drive.
4. Select the Erase tab.
5. Rename your Hard Drive, select the format of your Hard Drive, and select Erase.
6. Once the drive has been formatted, exit out of Disk Utility to return to the OSX Utilities screen.

Resources

Make Your Mac Feel Like New Again With a Fresh Install of OSX
Information from Field Guide—Gizmodo
How to Clean Install MacOS high Sierra
Information from OSXDaily
Disk Utility Help—Erase a volume
Information from Apple Support

2. Reinstall

Now that you have a reformatted hard drive, you will be installing a phresh copy of the latest OSX onto your hard drive (Unless you have the installation files for a different OS version on a flash drive).

1. Make sure your computer is plugged into a power source.
2. From the OSX Utilities screen select install macOS.
3. Select the hard drive you just reformatted in step 3 of the previous section.
4. Select Install and select your preferences as prompted.

Resources

How To Clean Install MacOS High Sierra
Information from OSXDaily

Set Up

The Set Up section will walk you through getting your phresh machine up and running as quickly as possible. We will set up the computer with Homebrew, Node, NPM, Gulp, Homebrew Cask, Git, and Github. This will prepare your computer for future processes such as installing applications quickly.

1. Homebrew 🔗

Homebrew is a great tool for web developers. First, it makes removing Node very easy (otherwise you have to crawl through your file system and delete a bunch of files manually). Second, it greatly simplfies the installation of other useful packages like Git, Ruby, or the very useful wget utility.

1. Paste this into a Terminal prompt:

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

Resources

Homebrew Documentation
Description from Treehouse blog

2. Node + NPM 🔗

NPM is a package manager for JavaScript and the world's largest software registry. Discover packages of reusable code — and assemble them in powerful new ways.

1. Enter brew install node into a Terminal prompt.
2. Enter npm install npm@latest -g into a Terminal prompt.
3. To check the install, enter node -v; npm -v. You should see two numbers print out which are the versions for node and npm respectively.

Resources

npmjs Documentation
Description from npmjs

3. Gulp 🔗

gulp is a toolkit for automating painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow, so you can stop messing around and build something.

1. Enter npm install -global gulp-cli into a Terminal prompt.
2. To check the install, enter gulp -v. You should see a number print out which is the version for gulp.

Resources

gulpjs Documentation
Description from gulpjs

4. Homebrew Cask 🔗

Homebrew-Cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to macOS applications and large binaries alike.

1. Enter brew tap caskroom/cask into a Terminal prompt.

Resources

Homebrew Cask Documentation
Description from Homebrew Cask

5. Caskroom-fonts 🔗

Caskroom-fonts is a Homebrew Tap which allows you to use the same friendly Homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of binary font files on your Mac.

1. Enter brew tap caskroom/fonts into a Terminal prompt.

Resources

Caskroom Fonts Documentation
Description from Caskroom Fonts

6. Git + GitHub 🔗

GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work. From open source to business, you can host and review code, manage projects, and build software alongside millions of other developers.

1. Set up Git and authenticate with GitHub

Resources

Getting Started - Git Basics Github Guides
Description from Github

Application Installation

The Application Installation section will walk you through installing your applications. Using Homebrew Cask, you can download and install the necessary applications, and clean the download files with just a few lines of code.

1. Homebrew Cask 🔗

Homebrew-Cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to macOS applications and large binaries alike.

Application

1. Decide what applications you would like to install by entereing brew search [application-name] into a Terminal prompt.
2. Enter brew cask install [application] into a Terminal prompt. This will install the selected application.
3. Enter brew cask install [application][space][application] into a Terminal prompt to install multiple applications.
4. After installing all desired applications, enter brew cask cleanup into a Terminal prompt to delete all download files.
5. Enter brew cask upgrade into a Terminal prompt to upgrade all outdated casks.

To install all of the following applications with a single line of code:

1. Enter brew cask install google-chrome firefox slack skype figma sketch google-drive-file-stream adobe-creative-cloud sublime-text hyper into a Terminal prompt.

Fonts

1. Decide what fonts you would like to install with this directory
2. Enter brew cask install font-[font-name] into a Terminal prompt
3. To install Sourrce Sans Pro, enter brew cask install font-source-sans-pro into a Terminal prompt.

Web Browsers:

1. Google Chrome google-chrome
2. Mozilla Firefox firefox

File Management Tools:

1. Google Drive File Stream google-drive-file-stream

Communication Tools:

1. Slack slack
2. Skype skype
3. Google Chat google-chat

Design Tools:

1. Figma figma
2. Sketch sketch
3. Adobe Creative Cloud adobe-creative-cloud

Text Editors:

1. Sublime Text sublime-text
2. Visual Studio Code visual-studio-code

Terminal:

1. Hyper hyper
2. iterm2 iterm2

Resources

Homebrew Cask Documentation
Description from Homebrew Cask

Tasty Treats

The Tasty Treats section will tell you some of our Liferay team members' top picks for applications and extensions.

1. Naoki Hisamoto's Top Picks

Associate UX Designer

To install all of the following applications with a single line of code:

1. Enter brew cask install notion caffeine karabiner-elements spotify into a Terminal prompt.

1. Notion notion
2. Caffeine caffeine
3. Karabiner Elements karabiner-elements
4. Spotify spotify

2. Abel Hancock's Top Picks

Associate UX Designer

To install all of the following applications with a single line of code:

1. Enter brew cask install iterm2 into a Terminal prompt.

1. iterm² iterm2
2. Color Oracle color-oracle

3. Rebecca Wu's Top Picks

Associate UX Designer

To install all of the following applications with a single line of code:

1. Enter brew cask install flux evernote into a Terminal prompt.

1. Flux flux
2. Evernote evernote