Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up an macOS laptop for web and mobile development.

It can be run multiple times on the same machine safely.
It installs, upgrades, or skips packages
based on what is already installed on the machine.

Requirements

We support:

macOS Mavericks (10.9)
macOS Yosemite (10.10)
macOS El Capitan (10.11)
macOS Sierra (10.12)

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested.

Install

Download the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshkennedy/laptop/master/mac

Review the script (avoid running scripts you haven't read!):

less mac

Execute the downloaded script:

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

Optionally, review the log:

less ~/laptop.log

What it sets up

macOS tools:

Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.
Slack for internal team communication
iTerm2 for a better terminal experience
Atom, Sublime Text, and Visual Studio for coding magicks

Unix tools:

Git for version control
The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
Watchman for watching for filesystem events
Zsh as your shell

Image tools:

ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Testing tools:

Qt 5 for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit

Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:

Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
Node.js and NPM, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
Yarn for managing JavaScript packages

Databases:

Postgres for storing relational data

It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depending on your machine).

Customize in `~/.laptop.local`

Your ~/.laptop.local is run at the end of the Laptop script. Put your customizations there.

For example:

#!/bin/sh

brew bundle --file=- <<EOF
brew "Caskroom/cask/dockertoolbox"
brew "go"
brew "ngrok"
brew "watch"
EOF

default_docker_machine() {
  docker-machine ls | grep -Fq "default"
}

if ! default_docker_machine; then
  docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default
fi

default_docker_machine_running() {
  default_docker_machine | grep -Fq "Running"
}

if ! default_docker_machine_running; then
  docker-machine start default
fi

fancy_echo "Cleaning up old Homebrew formulae ..."
brew cleanup
brew cask cleanup

if [ -r "$HOME/.rcrc" ]; then
  fancy_echo "Updating dotfiles ..."
  rcup
fi

Write your customizations such that they can be run safely more than once. See the mac script for examples.

Laptop functions such as fancy_echo and gem_install_or_update can be used in your ~/.laptop.local.

See the wiki for more customization examples.

joshkennedy/laptop