Setup

Script to set up a macOS laptop for web 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

We support:

macOS Sonoma (14.x) on Apple Silicon and Intel
macOS Ventura (13.x) on Apple Silicon and Intel
macOS Monterey (12.x) on Apple Silicon and Intel

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested. Bug reports for older versions are welcome.

Install

Download the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TelosLabs/laptop-setup/main/setup_mac

Execute the downloaded script:

sh setup_mac

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)
Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
Zsh as your shell

Heroku tools:

Heroku CLI and Parity for interacting with the Heroku API

GitHub tools:

GitHub CLI for interacting with the GitHub API

Image tools:

ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:

asdf-vm for managing programming language versions
Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
Node.js and npm, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
Yarn for managing JavaScript packages
Rosetta 2 for running tools that are not supported in Apple silicon processors

GUI tools

Slack for team communication
Krisp for noise cancellation in calls
Tuple for pair programming

Databases:

Postgres for storing relational data
Redis for storing key-value data

Gems

Rails our main web framework