Devtools

Devtools contains a makefile and a set of scripts for setting up my common dev tools (like nvim and zsh) in a newly installed Linux / Mac system so I have a consistent development environment every time. Currently it's mainly for setting things up for Go development.

About

I put together this repo because I always have trouble setting up new development environments, which I find myself doing quite often for testing or just to check out a new Linux distro. This set of scripts can be run to give me the exact same environment every time.

Feel free to take it and modify it for your own use-case, but I would highly recommend not to use it as-is because it's specific to my own workflow and it's better to customize your own environment.

I've used devtools on Ubuntu, ArchLinux, and Mac OS X. It may work for other Linux distros as well, but I haven't tested it and have no plans to do so.

Currently the following tools are setup:

zsh with oh-my-zsh and the powerline10k theme.
nvim with gruvbox theme and support for Golang.
screen with some basic changes to its look.
go with configurable directory structure.

I will probably add more in the future, like Docker.

Install

First, make sure to install the following packages using your OS's package manager:

screen
unzip
nvim
zsh
git
sudo
make
wget
kubectl

You can install Go using your package manager or, for more up-to-date version, from https://golang.org/dl/.

Devtools will not run anything that requires superuser privileges, so these need to be setup first. Make sure zsh is your default shell (check your OS documentation), but there's no need to run the first start because the .zshrc will be overwritten by devtools.

Instructions are available below for Ubuntu and Mac OS X.

Ubuntu

Install prereqs first, devtools will not install them for you:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install neovim zsh git make wget unzip screen

Install kubectl by following https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/.

Download and install Go from https://golang.org/dl/.

Set default shell to zsh:

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Logout and login to use the new shell. Quit the new shell setup that opens when you first start zsh - shell setup will be overwritten by this application.

Proceed to the section on Running.

Mac OS X

On OS X Catalina or later, zsh will already be installed. If it's not, you should be able to install it with Homebrew (brew install zsh).

Install the prereqs first, devtools will not install them for you:

brew update && brew upgrade
brew install nvim git make wget screen kubectl

Download and install Go from https://golang.org/dl/.

Set default shell to zsh:

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Logout and login to use the new shell. Quit the new shell setup that opens when you first start zsh - shell setup will be overwritten by this application.

Proceed to the section on Running.

Running

Clone the devtools repo:

git clone git@github.com:MasterOfBinary/devtools.git

Devtools needs to be run from its directory (i.e. the directory with the Makefile):

cd devtools

Edit the config file to your liking. You may be fine with the defaults.

Use make to install everything. No superuser privileges are required:

make

You can use make help to get a list of make targets:

Usage:
    make <target>

Targets:
    go                             Sets up go directories.
    help                           Shows help.
    nvim                           Sets up nvim with plugins and config files.
    screen                         Sets up screen.
    zsh                            Installs oh-my-zsh with powerline10k theme and config files.

For example, to just setup screen, run:

make screen

Other

I like to set my terminal theme to the gruvbox theme, the same theme I'm using for nvim. For iterm2, download the theme at https://github.com/herrbischoff/iterm2-gruvbox and import it.

You'll also need powerline fonts for your terminal, otherwise some weird symbols will show up. My preference is Mononoki Nerd Font from https://www.nerdfonts.com/.

Also, I install screenfetch when zsh starts up. On Ubuntu, install it as follows:

Run sudo apt-get install screenfetch.
Remove execute permissions from all files in /etc/update-motd.d to hide all the other message of the days.
Create new file /etc/update-motd.d/00-header-new with execute permissions.

Add the following to the new 00-header-new file:

#!/bin/sh

screenfetch