MacOS Development Setup

MACOS-DEV.md

Install MacOS

Updgrade to High Sierra if needed.

Remove unused items in the Dock, then move the Dock to the left and make it autohide.

Make sure iCloud Drive is configured as it will take a while to sync information.

Install Basic Tools & Applications

Start a Terminal window

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dlucian/laptop/master/laptop)

This will take about 15 minutes. See the docs page for more information.

Start GitHub Desktop and sign in. Then, sign into GitHub.com and add a key

ssh-keygen
cat /Users/lucian/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Copy paste the key into GitHub's SSH Keys (Settings menu).

ZSH

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dlucian/prezto.git "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto"

Enable shell:

setopt EXTENDED_GLOB
for rcfile in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}"/.zprezto/runcoms/^README.md(.N); do
  ln -s "$rcfile" "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.${rcfile:t}"
done

Install Consolas font:

$ brew install cabextract
$ cd ~/Downloads
mkdir consolas
cd consolas
curl -O http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/5/a/f5a3df76-d856-4a61-a6bd-722f52a5be26/PowerPointViewer.exe
cabextract PowerPointViewer.exe
cabextract ppviewer.cab
open CONSOLA*.TTF

Open iTerm and configure it. Open Preferences -> Profiles -> Default and:

• Colors: set Solarized Dark color theme
• Text: 17pt Monaco

Install the rest of the applications:

cd ~/.zprezto/modules/laptop && zsh .laptop.local

MacOS settings:

zsh ~/.zprezto/modules/laptop/settings.sh

Manually set up licensing / accounts for:

• 1Password
• Alfred
• DaisyDisk
• CloudApp

Laravel Valet

Valet documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/valet

composer global require laravel/valet
subl ~/.zshrc

export PATH=”$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$HOME/.bin:$PATH”

brew install mysql

We've installed your MySQL database without a root password. To secure it run:
    mysql_secure_installation

MySQL is configured to only allow connections from localhost by default

To connect run:
    mysql -uroot

To have launchd start mysql now and restart at login:
  brew services start mysql
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
  mysql.server start

Later updates via:

composer global update

Install Valet:

valet install

Setup sites folder:

mkdir ~/Sites
cd ~/Sites
valet park