Setup a Mac for Development - Homebrew, iTerm2, Node.js, Productivity Apps and more!

Tyvm!

I use the default terminal, Obviously I use nvim with plugins. 0 Apps installed 💪 on my mac (well... at least for coding)

Thanks for your video 👌🏻 apps alternative rectangle >tittles, copy/paste>copyQ>CloudClip>Jump , editors>CotEditor>TexMate

Hey CJ I'm working through setting up my macbook pro M2 environment. It seems homebrew now defaults to the `/opt/homebrew/bin/bash` directory, which is what I get back after running `which bash`. Once I update my `sudo nano /etc/shells` to include `/usr/local/bin/bash` - I get a popup error saying "A session ended very soon after starting. Check that the command in profile "Default" is correct."

Might some default configs be different on the M2 machine?

Hi, Iterm2 not showing kindly assist.Thanks

I would recommend volta over nvm for node management !

do i really need to install all these things?

bash (as well as tcsh) comes builtin MacOS. No need to install it from brew (unless you want a newer version & license).
bash (or tcsh) scripts can also run from a zsh shell without problems provided you make the 1st line in the script: #!/usr/bin/env bash You can even use #!/usr/bin/env tcsh on a tcsh script and run it from any other shell.

Firefox no thanks. You can sync your bookmarks across all platforms, right? Guess what? Its broken. The same version are highly inconsistent on all platforms, some has more features, some has less and all of them are different. More features, more bugs. Now you can turn off CTRL-TAB in "recently-used-order" instead of being forced on you with no option to turn it off, after like ten years. The politics are too much. About: config, you can't do that in iOS or Android versions. No you cannot turn off recently bookmark items, either. There are much better alternatives.

Did you experience the screen glitching or flicker?

Any app suggestions for clipboard history?

Thanks a lot! really useful and helpful video!

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Thank you so much!!

this is amazing, thanks!

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Great content. Thank you for sharing

Bought a macbook. it sucks! this is the video that I was looking for.

This was so incredibly helpful, thank you!

Not a developer, but cherry-picked a lot, here, thanks a bunch! Cheers from sunny Belgium

very useful. thanks so much.

You explained things so clearly! Your the first person I can actually listen to for the entire video when it comes to computers. I’ve been really trying to dive into programming but it’s hard to listen to people that don’t sound excited about it! Definitely subbing!

I just got a mid 2014 MacBook Pro 15 2.5 quad core i7(16GB ram/500GB SSD). Its currently running MacOs 11.7.3 with no problems and I'm gonna use it for Front-end development. I was using a Thinkpad W530 with Linux Mint as my primary machine, but I ran into some hardware/software inconveniences...so I just decided to run the Macbook(with the Thinkpad as a backup) for convenience. i'm already in the Mac ecosystem so it's almost natural. I REALLY thank you for this video.

"brew install" isn't working for me for some reason

Thank you for taking the time to prep this video. I hit a brick wall when I added /usr/local/bin/bash to PICO. I installed homebrew under .zsh and the file is not recognized. I used brew install bash prior to this. How can I remove the shell created in PICO. Every time I remove, exit and save it I get permission denied. I do have a /bin/bash listed as a shell. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Love it! 85% of setup I have on my 2013 macbook pro that is still flying btw!
Good to know that im not the only one concerned about private date =)

people of the internet - should I get rid of my asus rog zephirus gaming laptop - windows 11 with wsl used for python and javascript configured with tmux and nvim as full LSP - and plunge in get a macbook m1 air m1 with 16gb and 512 SSD?

I use Warp instead of iTerm2. Love it

Very excellent video I bought my MacBook Pro 2022 two weeks ago and with this video I was able to configure completely without any programming knowledge

As a minimalist: horrible setup

i think sh is a link to either bash, dash or zsh

How to remove contacts from Alfred default search?
By mistake I have allowed the popup shows to me.
Please help me out

Instead of i2term, give Warp a go...I only downloaded it yesterday, but it's fantastic

Instead of
homebrew- nix
iterm - warp
Vscode - neovim
Alfred - raycast

Just got a mbp after being a windows, trying to setup my dev environment however I noticed something very odd. When I open a terminal shell the usergroup changes depending on what network im connected to, it never opens with <user>@MacBook-Pro unless im disconnected from the internet. Any insight would be appreciated

Check out Warp instead of iTerm..it is fast and modern.

nano used to be called pico. Pico was based on the mail client called "Pine"

There"s only ONE terminal --> Alacritty

First time mac user here, and this helped tremendously! THANK YOU!!!!!

Nice. Good info, thanks man

Hi. i got a question about this setup on M1 chip. When I do same setup on Intel chip it works but on M1 it shows only HOST_NAME without path and under that it shows ` bash: ~: command not found `. And I don't know where can be the issue.

Well.. snap! Or..not D;

Quite similiar to the last time, the only thing which I think you missed was the badge you display on your terminal

Terminal is the graphical program that runs the shell. For instance, you can switch shells in one terminal. In this can iTerm is the terminal and zsh is the shell, but can easily be bash or fish!

So is it fine if I get a MacBook Pro 2015? I'm looking for a cheap Mac that can last for some more years. I do web dev as well

very useful

what's the difference between the bash you installed from brew and the bash that already comes with the mac located at /bin/bash?

Super helpful, thank you so much