Mac OS with M1

Basics

After you have a fresh new install from the latest Mac OS you need to install some basically tools to be able to configure the entire environment.

Lets start with the XCode command lines by running the command inside your terminal this will install the clang gcc git .

xcode-select --install

Now we need to install a very useful tool named brew this will help us to install external packages and programs.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Terminal

We use ZSH as our terminal with Power Level 10K as the style guide, for the fonts you can use the Nerd Fonts

brew install zsh

After the ZSH installation succeed you will be able to install the Power level 10k the easiest way is following their tutorial, there you can find even which font to use

GitHub - romkatv/powerlevel10k: A Zsh theme (opens in a new tab)

Docker

Install with brew

brew install docker

Node JS

To be able to change and install multiple NodeJS versions you need a tool named NVM (Node Version Manager)

brew install nvm

After that you need to tell your terminal, in our case zsh that we have the nvm location for that you need to add this code inside your ~/.zshrc

# NVM Brew config
export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh

Python

Install pyenv using brew command

brew install pyenv

Add the variables into bash

# PyEnv config
export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

Then install and install python version 2.7.18 with

pyenv global 2.7.18

Code Editor & IDEs

We recommend to use the essential tools for software developers from JetBrains they have a really nice IDEs that can help you with all programming languages, but is a paid option.

JetBrains: Developer Tools for Professionals and Teams (opens in a new tab)

If you want a free option we recommend using the

(opens in a new tab)

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