Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up a 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.

This is inspired by the Thoughtbot Laptop script, but with changes for my workflow.

Requirements

Supports:

macOS Monterey (12.3) on Apple Silicon and Intel

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested.

Install

Download the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scuerda/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

Optionally, install dotfiles.

Debugging

Your last Laptop run will be saved to ~/laptop.log. Read through it to see if you can debug the issue yourself. If not, copy the lines where the script failed into a new GitHub Issue for us. Or, attach the whole log file as an attachment.

What it sets up

macOS tools:

Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.

Unix tools:

Universal Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
Git for version control
OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
RCM for managing company and personal dotfiles
The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
Watchman for watching for filesystem events
Zsh as your shell
Neovim as your text editor

GitHub tools:

gh for interacting with the GitHub API

Image tools:

ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:

asdf-vm for managing programming language versions
Node.js and npm, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
Python stable for writing general-purpose code
Erlang
Elixir
Yarn for managing JavaScript packages

Databases:

Postgres for storing relational data
Redis for storing key-value data

It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depends 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.

Contributing

Edit the mac file. Document in the README.md file. Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and Syntastic.

brew install shellcheck

Thank you, contributors!

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License

About thoughtbot

Laptop is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc. The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.

We are passionate about open source software. See our other projects. We are available for hire.

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