Developer Experience (DX) Scripts

Scripts to automatically install and configure shells for a pretty sweet Developer Experience 🧁

dx-scripts.mp4

Install

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/nerdyman/dx-scripts/main/install.sh)"

WSL Ubuntu Users

If you're using Ubuntu on WSL, it's recommended that you upgrade your distro and packages:

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get upgrade -y && \
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y && \
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/nerdyman/dx-scripts/main/install.sh)"

What do the Scripts do?

Install useful distro packages
Install and configure Zsh
- Set the default shell to Zsh
- Install Oh My Zsh
- Enable Oh My Zsh plugins
- Enable Zsh Syntax Highlighting
Install and configure Starship Cross-Shell Prompt
Install and configure Node Version Manager (nvm)
- Enable Zsh hook to automatically load Node.js version from an .nvmrc config
Install and configure Generic Colouriser (grc)
- Configure Zsh settings for better ls colours
Install and configure fzf (fuzzy finder)
- Configure fzf for Zsh
Install and configure SSH
- Configure SSH for Zsh

Alias and Environment Files

Aliases are set in ~/.config/aliases.

~p is aliased to ~/Documents/projects, you can use it like:

~p/my-cool-project/hello-world.sh

The following paths are also sourced in .zshrc if they exist:

~/.config/aliases.private
~/.config/env.private

Supported Platforms

The agnostic script should work on any Unix/Linux OS. Ubuntu is currently the only distro with its own script to auto-install dependencies for the agnostic script.

Scripts

agnostic.sh *
- Install and configure Oh My Zsh
- Install and configure nvm
- Install and configure Starship Cross-Shell Prompt
- Configure default shell (Zsh)
- Configure fzf for Zsh (fzf install is handled in distro script)
- Configure grc for Zsh (grc install is handled in distro script)
- Configure SSH for Zsh (SSH client install is handled in distro script)
ubuntu.sh - Install and configure Ubuntu packages
- Install fzf, SSH, Zsh, and useful shell utilities

* Only tested on Ubuntu.