Config and Environment Setup

System Preferences

Update your System: Apple menu () > About This Mac > Software Update.

Trackpad

• Point & Click
  • Enable Tap to click with one finger
  • Change Secondary click to Right corner
  • Uncheck Three Finger Drag
• Scroll & Zoom
  • Uncheck all apart from Zoom in and out
  • Invert trackpad

Dock

• Visual Settings
  • Make the size of icons Small
  • Turn hiding On
• Other settings
  • Remove workspace auto-switching by running the following command:

$ defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO
$ killall Dock # Restart the Dock process

Finder

• General
  • Change New finder window show to open in your Home Directory
• Sidebar
  • Add Home and your Code Directory
  • Uncheck all Shared boxes

Menubar

• Remove the Display icon
• Change battery to Show percentage symbols
• Turn hiding on

Spotlight

• Uncheck fonts, images, files etc.

User Defaults

• Enable repeating keys by pressing and holding down keys: defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false (and restart any app that you need to repeat keys in)
• Change the default folder for screenshots
  • Open the terminal and create the folder where you would like to store your screenshots: mkdir -p /path/to/screenshots/
  • Then run the following command: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path/to/screenshots/ && killall SystemUIServer

Xcode

For installing Xcode command line tools run:

$ xcode-select --install

Homebrew

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

$ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

Start new shell.

$ brew doctor

Iterm2

$ brew cask install iterm2

$ brew tap caskroom/fonts && brew cask install font-source-code-pro

$ brew install tldr

Import json iterm2 profile.

GIT

$ brew install git

Copy .gitconfig to ~/.gitconfig.

$ git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

Copy .gitignore to ~/.gitignore.

$ git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

Bash Completion

$ brew install bash-completion
$ echo "[ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_completion ] && . /usr/local/etc/bash_completion" >> ~/.bash_profile
$ brew install apm-bash-completion
$ brew install bash-completion
$ brew install docker-completion
$ brew install docker-compose-completion
$ brew install docker-machine-completion
$ brew install maven-completion
$ brew install brew-cask-completion
$ brew install zsh-completions
$ brew install pip-completion

VIM

    $ brew install vim

Sublime3

Have to download the dmg :(

$ ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/subl

Copy over preferences to sublime3.

Install package control:

• Color Highlighter
• Color Sublime
• FileDiffs
• MarkdownEditing
• MarkdownPreview
• SublimeLinter
• Syntax History
• JSON Pretty
• URLEncode
• TypeScript syntax
• CoffeeScript Syntax
• Git
• Jekyll

Install IntelliJ or Eclipse

• STS plugins
• Lombok plugins

Install Latest Java

Scala

$ brew update
$ brew install scala sbt

Python

$ brew install python
$ brew install python@2
$ pip install --upgrade setuptools
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ brew install pyenv
$ echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ exec $SHELL
$ pyenv install 2.7.12
$ pyenv install 3.5.2

Node.js

$ brew install node
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.1/install.sh | bash
$ source ~/.bash_profile        # source your bash_profile to add path
$ command -v nvm          # check the nvm use message
$ nvm install node        # install most recent Node stable version
$ nvm use node            # use stable as current version
$ nvm alias default node  # set the installed stable version as the default Node

Go

$ brew install go
$ export GOPATH=/User/$USER/dev/go_env/
$ export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin

Docker

Postman

Install Atom

Install Github Desktop

Install CQLSH

Install VirtualBox

Install Visual Studio Code

Install Google Chrome

Intall Flux

Install VLC

Install Stream Deck App (if using as Hotkey pad)

More Information

• Github gitingore Files
• http://sourabhbajaj.com/mac-setup/