Web Development Setup ⚡️

web-development-setup.md

Terminal

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# take screenshots as jpg (usually smaller size) and not png
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

# do not open previous previewed files (e.g. PDFs) when opening a new one
defaults write com.apple.Preview ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES

# show Library folder
chflags nohidden ~/Library

# show hidden files
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

# show path bar
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowPathbar -bool true

# show status bar
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true

killall Finder;

• Install Oh My ZSH sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)

• Update Homebrew brew update
• Create .zshrc touch .zshrc inside root with alias ll='ls -alh' and source source ~/.zshrc
• Install NVM brew install nvm
  • Update .zshrc with source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh and source source ~/.zshrc
  • Install Node LTS nvm install --lts
  • Install yarn npm install --global yarn

Install GitHub Desktop (https://desktop.github.com/)

• Generate SSH key ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
• Create GitHub folder mkdir projects inside root
• Clone first repo with SSH

Install VSCode (https://code.visualstudio.com/)

• Turn on Settings Sync with GitHub