README.md

Laptop

Shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web development. Inspired from thoughtbot/laptop.

Install

Download and execute the script:

sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log

What it sets up

macOS Tools

• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.

UNIX Tools

• Git for version control
• OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
• Java for application dependencies and programming

Heroku CLI

• Heroku for interacting with Heroku API

Image manipulation

• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Testing

• Qt5 for Capybara testing

Programming language prerequisites and package managers

• LibYAML for YAML parsing
• CoreUtils, GNU core utilities
• Yarn for managing JavaScript packages
• GPG Tools for enctryption
• RVM for managing different version of Ruby

Databases and storage

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

Searching/Indexing

• ElasticSearch for full-text search

Applications for communication, browsing, development and collaboration

• Slack for communication
• Skype for communication
• Google Chrome for faster browsing
• iTerm2 for advanced features in terminal for development
• Textmate texteditor for development