Setting up a Macbook Pro

Installation

This repo contains the code to set-up a Macbook Pro with all the apps and tools I use on a day-to-day basis while coding/working.

The initial-setup.sh does about 90% of the work. The rest of the work requires entering licensing keys for things like Alfred and then syninc our VS Code setting by signing in with GitHub.

All the apps and tools are installed using Homebrew so this is the first thing installed in the set-up script.

Font

We use the Dank Mono Font but due to it's licensing we can't push to this repo therefore we have to install manually. Other than that everything else can be installed via the set-up script.

Set Up

apps.txt and tools.txt are pretty self-explanatory in that the app.txt will install the macOS Applications using Homebrew flag --cask and the tools.txt will install just normal development tools wthout the --cask flag.

# Applications Installed
Firefox
Microsoft Teams
Alfred 4
iTerm
Visual Studio Code
Docker
GPG Keychain
1Password
Discord
Spotify
Sequel Ace
Postman

# Tools Installed
ZSH
Golang
PHP
GitHub CLI
Composer
Tig
PHP Code Sniffer
Yarn
AWS Vault
Terraform
AWS CLI
JQ
PNPM
Git
Fast Node Version Manager (fnm)
Python
Bun

Any application or developer tool that can be installed via Homebrew can be installed with this set-up script. Applications MUST go inside the apps.txt file due to how we run the brew command and tools MUST go inside the tools.txt file.

Installation

Clone the repo into your $HOME directory.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/coderste/mac-setup.git

NB: You need git installed on the environment to run this set-up because we use submodules the folders are not included when downloaded as ZIP from GitHub. Install Xcode Command Line Tools which will give you access to git

GitHub CLI and more

We install and authenticate with the GitHub CLI towards the end of the set-up script. This gives us the option to generate a new SSH pubic/private key for the machine we are on and then it will upload the public key for us to our GitHub. This just makes the process of generating a new public/private easier and even less work for us.

Directories

I have a personal set-up of 2 directories. One for work repos and one for personal repos. The structure is like so:

code
|-- personal
|   |-- repo-1
|   `-- repo-2
|-- work
|   |-- repo-1
|   `-- repo-2

This structure aligns with my aliases for running shortcut commands in the terminal.

Screenshots of the enviroment

Terminal Screenshot

VS Code Screenshot

Dock

I'm picky on my dock layout so this is to remember it