I use both Mac and Windows regularly and sometimes Ubuntu as well. Although I mostly use Mac as my coding machine, I am very interested in coding on my Windows machine as well. After some reseaches as well as trials and errors, I am able to setup the dev environment on my Windows machine and I am pretty happy with it so far. I think it may be a good idea to share the setup process with the community, and hopefully it can save other people some time :).

This document and bash scripts will be updated piece by piece and I will try my best to describe the process step by step. Please feel free to let me know if you see anything confusing/unclear/wrong or you have any recommendations. Thank you :).

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It is a good idea to centralize all your packages in one folder. Not only does it help to better organize your packages, having a dedicated folder for your packages also makes navigating with command line easier. In this instruction for Windows, all packages will be put or installed under /c/usr/bin (a.k.a "C:\usr\bin"). Please create the folder if it is not existed, and of course, feel free to name your own directory. One popular alternative would be making an Applications folder under your personal folder and install all packages in there. To reach your personal folder, you can do so by simply typing in %USERPROFILE% in you folder navigator.

If you are familiar with Window's PowerShell, you can create the folder by opening PowerShell and run:

mkdir -p /c/usr/bin

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For Windows's default command prompt or PowerShell, you will sometimes need the administrative permission to perform some tasks. To run as administrator, right click on the cmd.exe or powershell.exe and select Run as Administrator option from the list.

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For Windows users, it is necessary to modified the Environment Variables (EV) so that some applications can be accessed through terminal.

Follow the steps to reach the interface of EV:
Right click My Computer -> click Properties -> click Environment Variables

Whenever a new application is installed and you want to access it through terminal, you can press New under the System variables section to add the application's path as an enviroment variable.

For Variable name, the convention is to use the upper case of the application's name and then concatenate it with _HOME (e.g. Python would be PYTHON_HOME).

For Variable value, just enter the full path of the application.

Once new EV is added, select Path row under the User variables section, and click the Edit button on below. Go to the end of its Variable value and append the name of EV that you just created with a ; as separator. Click OK and you are done.

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Terminal, sometime also known as the command line interface (cli) is used to interact with computer programs.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

We are just going to use the Git Bash that comes with Git.

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You can either use the system default terminal, or you can also use iTerm2, which is an enhanced terminal for Mac.

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For Ubuntu, Fedora, and all other Unix/Linux base operating system users, you can either use the system default terminal, or some other terminal applications, such as Tilda or Guake.

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Zsh stands for Z shell is a Unix base interactive login shell. You can learn more about it on its Wiki page.

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

brew install zsh

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zsh

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sudo yum install zsh

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wget utility is a free, open-source, command-line tool that downloads content from internet

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

brew install wget

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wget

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sudo yum install wget

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Oh-My-Zsh is an framework for managing your ZSH configuration. You can learn more about it on its homepage, or on its git repository

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

According to the README file on here, installing oh-my-zsh on Mac can be done by executing this line into your terminal.

curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh

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You need Git and Zsh as the prerequisites.

Once you have installed the prerequisites, you can:

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh
sudo chsh -s `which zsh`

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You need Git and Zsh as the prerequisites.

Once you have installed the prerequisites, you can:

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh
sudo chsh -s `which zsh`

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Homebrew is a package manager for Mac. You can learn more about it on its homepage

Since Mac comes with Ruby by default, you can install Homebrew by running:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

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Sublime is a very useful and convenient text editor.

• Windows
• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• Configuration

You can download Sublime from its homepage.

Once the exe file is downloaded, double click to install it.

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You can install it on Ubuntu through PPA. To add the sublime PPA, run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2
sudo apt-get update

Once the PPA is added and updated, you can install Sublime by running:

sudo apt-get install sublime-text

If you prefer to install Sublime manually, you can follow the instruction for Fedora instead.

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Please make sure you have root permission and then you can install Sublime manually by copy and paste the following script into terminal:

For 64-bit System:

wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2\ x64.tar.bz2
tar vxjf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2\ x64.tar.bz2
sudo mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 /opt/sublime
sudo rm -rf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2\ x64.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s /opt/sublime/sublime_text /usr/bin/subl

For 32-bit System:

wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2.tar.bz2
tar vxjf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2.tar.bz2
sudo mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 /opt/sublime
sudo rm -rf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s /opt/sublime/sublime_text /usr/bin/subl

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Once Sublime is successfully installed, you can use it to open a single file by running: subl <FILE_PATH>, or open all files of the current directory by running subl .

Package Control is the simplest way of install packages to sublime. You can learn about how to install Package Controll from here.

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sudo touch /usr/share/applications/sublime.desktop

content="
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name[en]=Sublime 2.0.2
Icon=/opt/sublime/Icon/256x256/sublime_text.png
Exec="/opt/sublime/sublime_text.sh" %f
Comment=The text editor you will fall in love with
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TextEditor;Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
GenericName=Text Editor

";

echo "$content" >> /usr/share/applications/sublime.desktop;

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Git is a distributed version control and code management system.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• Configuration

Since Git contains many convenient built-in functions as well as a useful bash shell, it is recommended to be installed first in setting up the dev environment on Windows.

You can download the latest git install file for Windows from here

Once the installation file is downloaded, install it under /c/usr/bin/git or whatever directory you chose. Don't worry about the configuration choices available during the installation process, it would be fine to just keep them in default.

Git should've come with Mac by default. You can verify your git version by opening your terminal and running:

git --version

If git does not come with your Mac somehow, you can follow their instruction to install git manually.

Or you can install it through Homebrew by running:

brew install git

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To install git on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

To upgrade to the latest version of Git, you can do so by running:

sudo apt-get upgrade git

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To install git on Fedora:

sudo yum install git

To upgrade git on Fedora:

sudo yum upgrade git

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Once Git is installed, you can check about its version using git -v.

There are some shortcuts are very convenient as well, you can set them up with following:

git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global alias.cm !git add -A && git commit -m

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Gitg is a graphic user interface for git.

• Ubuntu
• Fedora

sudo apt-get install gitg

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sudo yum install gitg

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Gitk is a graphic user interface for git.

• Ubuntu
• Fedora

sudo apt-get install gitk

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sudo yum install gitk

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Similar to Gitk, SmartGit is an UI for git too, yet it has more functionalities than Gitk. However, it is not free.

• Ubuntu
• Fedora

sudo apt-get install smartgit

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sudo yum install smartgit

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Curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server.

Curl comes with Mac and some distros of Linux by default. For Windows, it should comes with Git. In case Curl is not installed on your system, you can follow the instructions below to install it yourself.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Visit Curl to download the latest version of curl-[version].zip.

Once it is downloaded, unzip it to /c/usr/bin/curl, or whatever directory your chose.

Run git bash as administrator, then create a symbolic link by running:

ln -s /c/usr/bin/curl/curl.exe /usr/bin/curl.exe

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Mac should have Curl by default. You can verify your curl version by opening your terminal and running:

curl --version

If curl does not come with your Mac somehow, you can follow the same instruction of Windows to manually install it on your Mac.

Or you can install it through Homebrew by running:

brew install curl

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sudo apt-get install curl

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sudo yum install curl

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• Mac

brew install wget

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• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

You can install Ruby on Windows by using RubyInstaller with either the x86 installer or x64 installer based on your operation system.

To download the installer through command line, you can do so by running: For 64-bit system:

curl --remote-name "http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-2.2.1-x64.exe"

For 32-bit system:

curl --remote-name "http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-2.2.1.exe"

Install Ruby under /c/usr/bin/ruby or whatever directory you chose

Once the installation is done, the executable ruby.exe should then be under: /c/usr/bin/ruby/bin

Run git bash as administrator, then create a symbolic link by running:

ln -s /c/usr/bin/ruby/bin/ruby.exe /usr/bin/ruby.exe

Verify the symbolic link is working properly by running:

which ruby # should see /usr/bin/ruby

If there is error saying ruby is not found on sh.exe, restart the git bash and redo the verification.

Once you restarted the git bash and verified ruby is installed on your machine, you can check its version by running:

ruby --version

If you want to call Ruby from the PowerShell of Windows's default terminal, you need to add Ruby to the system environment vairables.

devkit is the prerequisite for Rails on Windows. You can download its latest version for Windows from here.

Scroll down to "Other Userful Downloads" and it is under "development kit" section.

Choose the appropriate devkit to download, either x86 or x64 based on your operation system.

Once the download is done, double click on the executable file and install/unzip it to /c/usr/bin/devkit, or whatever directory you chose.

Run git bash as administrator and go to the directory of devkit by running:

cd /c/usr/bin/devkit

Initialize the devkit and then install it by running:

ruby dk.rb init
ruby dk.rb install

If there is no error shows up, the setup is successful.

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Mac should have Ruby installed by default and it is the prerequisite for installing Rails. To verify it, you can open your terminal and run:

ruby --version

It should show you the version of your currently installed Ruby.

If Ruby does not come with your Mac somehow or you want to have a newer version of Ruby, you can get it with these approaches:

1. Download the latest Ruby from its homepage and install it manually according to its instruction.
2. Install the latest version of Ruby through Homebrew by running brew install ruby.
3. Use RVM to install Ruby, see the instruction for Ubuntu.

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Since Ruby Version Manager (RVM) is also available for Linux and other Unix-like operation system, you can install Ruby easily through using RVM. You can learn more about RVM on their home page: https://rvm.io/ RVM is a convenient way to manage multiple versions of Ruby and Rails (e.g. the system default version and the latest version) because sometimes you may want to keep the older version of Ruby to keep the compatibility or whatever.

To install RVM and Ruby, you need to have Curl, follow the instruction to get it if you haven't have it.

To install the latest RVM along with the latest stable RVM + Ruby, you can simply run:

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

Similarly, you can install the latest stable version of RVM + Ruby + Rails by running:

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

If you already have RVM setup, you can update it to the latest version by running:

rvm get stable

Once installation is done, you can verify it by running:

ruby -v

To select the latest ruby version as the default:

rvm --default <ruby_version>

To setup the Ruby environment, you can simply check if the Ruby environment is setup by a RVM command:

rvm requirements

While installing gems, the process will automatically generate documents, which can be time consuming. If you perfer online documents over local generated ones, you can skip the auto documents generating process, which would save you some time.

To disable the process, you can create a gem configuration file by running:

subl ~/.gemrc

and then paste and save the following two lines into .gemrc

install: --no-rdoc --no-ri
update:  --no-rdoc --no-ri

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Same as Ubuntu, see the instruction for Ubuntu.

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• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Ruby and devkit are the prerequisite for Rails. To verify both Ruby and devkit are installed in your machine, run the following lines on your git bash:

which ruby # should see a path similar to /c/usr/bin/ruby/bin/ruby
which gem # should see a path similar to /c/usr/bin/devkit/gem

Then run following line to install Rails:

gem install rails

Once installation is done, verify it by running:

which rails # should see a path similar to /c/usr/bin/rails/rails
rails -v # should see the version of rails

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As it is shown here earlier, Mac should have come with Ruby by default. Therefore, you can install Rails through terminal by simply running:

gem install rails

To install latest stable Rails through RVM, you can simply run:

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

Once installation is done, verify it through running:

which rails
rails -v

If you encounter issue while running gem install pg, you need to install PostgreSQL and you can do so by follow the instruction here.

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Please follow the same instruction of Mac.

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Please follow the same instruction of Mac.

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Both Java 7 and 8 are available today. This instruction will focus on Java 7, but the processes are similar to Java 8.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Download the latest Java for Windows from Oracle.

Choose the appropriate Thread Safe zip to download, either Windows x86 or Windows x64 based on your operation system.

Run the downloaded executable file and install java under:

/c/usr/bin/java

Run git bash as administrator, then go to the bin of git bash by running:

cd /usr/bin

Create a symbolic link by running:

ln -s /c/usr/bin/java/java.exe java.exe

Verify the symbolic link is working properly by running:

which java # should see /usr/bin/java
java -version

if there is error saying java is not found on sh.exe, restart the git bash and run above line again.

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Download the latest Java for Mac from Oracle.

Follow the instruction on there to read and accept the license agreement, then click the download link for Mac OS X x64.

Once the dmg file is downloaded, double click it to start the installation.

Once the installation is done, you can verify your Java version by running the following line on terminal:

java -version

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Download the latest Java for Mac from Oracle.

Follow the instruction on there to read and accept the license agreement, then click the tar.gz download link for Linux x86 or Linux x64 based on your operation system.

Once the dmg file is downloaded, double click it to start the installation.

Alternatively, you can use PPA to install Oracle Java as well.

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

If you want to install OpenJDK on Ubuntu, you can do so by running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Once installation process is done, you can verify the version of Java by running:

java -version

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To install Oracle Java for Ubuntu, follow the same process for Ubuntu.

Similarily, if you want to install OpenJDK on Fedora, you can do so by running:

sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel

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• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

There are Python 2.x and Python 3.x available. This instruction will focus on 2.x, but similar steps can be easily applied to 3.x as well.

Download the Python 2.7.9 for Windows from here.

Under the Download tab, choose the appropriate msi file to download, either x86 or x64 based on your operation system.

You can also use the following command to download the 32-bit version:

curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.9/python-2.7.9.msi

Or use the following command to download the 64-bit version:

curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.9/python-2.7.9.amd64.msi

Once the *.msi file is downloaded, double click it to install under /c/usr/bin/python.

the executable python.exe should then be under:

/c/usr/bin/python/python.exe

Run git bash as administrator, then go to the bin of git bash by running:

cd /usr/bin

Create a symbolic link by running:

ln -s /c/usr/bin/python/python.exe python.exe

Verify the symbolic link is working properly by running:

which python # should see /usr/bin/python
python -V # using uppercase V to see the version of installed python

if there is error saying php is not found on sh.exe, restart the git bash and run above line again.

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Mac should have Python installed by default. To verify it, you can open your terminal and run:

python --version

It should show you the version of your currently installed Python.

If Python does not come with your Mac somehow or you want to have a newer version of Python, (e.g. Python 3.x rather than Python 2.7.x), you can download and follow the installation instruction on Python's website:

https://www.python.org/downloads/

Or you can install the latest version of Python through Homebrew by running:

brew install python

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Install Python can be very easy with the help from the DeadSnakes PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.7

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sudo yum update
sudo yum install python27

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To install pip, you can download its installer file from [here] (https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html#install-pip)

Once download is completed, you can install pip by running:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo python get-pip.py

You can verify its version by running:

pip -V

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sudo apt-get install python-pip

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• Mac

sudo pip install django

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PHP is a scripting language for web applications.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Download the latest PHP for Windows from here.

Choose the appropriate Thread Safe zip to download, either VC11 x86 Thread Safe or VC11 x64 Thread Safe based on your operation system.

You can also use the following command to download the 32-bit version:

curl --remote-name http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.6.7-Win32-VC11-x86.zip

Or use the following command to download the 64-bit version:

curl --remote-name http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.6.7-Win32-VC11-x64.zip

Unzip the downloaded file to /c/usr/bin/php, or whatever directory you chose.

the executable php.exe should then be under:

/c/usr/bin/php/php.exe

Run git bash as administrator, then go to the bin of git bash by running:

cd /usr/bin

Create a symbolic link by running:

ln -s /c/usr/bin/php/php.exe php.exe

Verify the symbolic link is working properly by running:

which php # should see /usr/bin/php

if there is error saying php is not found on sh.exe, restart the git bash and run above line again.

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PHP is bundled with Mac.

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Installing PHP on Ubuntu is as simple as running:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

Once installation is done, you can verify it by running:

php -v

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Installing PHP on Fedora should be pretty straightforward if you configuration is correct.

sudo yum install php

Known Issue for Fedora

1. None of the mirrors contains the required packages

Node.js is an platform for Javascript. To install Node.js, download the install file from its homepage.

Once download is done, double click the file and follow the instruction to install it into your computer.

Once installation is done, Node.js and Node Packaged Modules (npm) should be ready on your computer.

You can verify them by running:

node -v
npm -v

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Alternatively, you can install Node.js through Homebrew.

brew intall node

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sudo apt-get install nodejs

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If you want to have the latest version of Node.js, you can install it through PPA maintained by Chris Lea. You can do so by running:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

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sudo yum install nodejs

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npm is a package manager for Node.js

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npm is a tool to manage the packages used by Node.js

sudo apt-get install npm

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Before install CoffeeScript, you need to make sure you have Node.js and Node Packaged Modules (npm) installed. To verify that, just run:

node -v
npm -v

Both of them should return version number.

To install CoffeeScript, you can do so by running:

npm install -g coffee-script

You may need root permission to install it.

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• Mac

Express is a web development framework for node.js. You can install it by running:

sudo npm install -g express-generator

Once installation is done, open a terminal window and verify it by running:

express --version

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Nodemon is a monitoring plugin that restart node.js application automatically if there is any changes happened to the code.

• Mac

sudo npm install -g nodemon

Once installation is done, open a terminal window and verify it by running:

nodemon -v

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• Ubuntu

Ubuntu comes with OpenSSL, but it may need to be upgraded because of the Heartbleed Bug. Moreover, newer version of OpenSSL is also required to install the latest Rails.

You can upgrade OpenSSL by running:

sudo apt-get upgrade openssl

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Gradle is a build tool for project, you can learn more about it on its homepage

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu

Gradle is a build tool for project, you can learn more about it on its homepage

To install Gradle on Windows, you can download its zip file from here and unzip it to /c/usr/bin/gradle or whatever folder you like.

Once the file is unzipped into the proper location, you can run git bash as administrator, then create a symbolic link by running:

cd /usr/bin
ln -s /c/usr/bin/gradle/gradle.exe gradle.exe

Verify the symbolic link is working properly by running:

which gradle # should see /usr/bin/gradle
gradle -v # should see version number

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Gradle is a build tool for project, you can learn more about it on its homepage

To install gradle, the simplest way would be to install it through Homebrew

Once you have Homebrew, you can install Gradle by running:

brew install gradle

Once installation is done, you can verify it by running:

gradle -v

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If you prefer installing Gradle mannually, you can follow the instruction here.

Otherwise, thanks to a PPA made by Cheng-Wei Chien, the installation process of Gradle on Ubuntu is pretty straightforward.

First of all, add the PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwchien/gradle
sudo apt-get update

Secondly, check about which versions are available:

sudo apt-cache search gradle

Lastly, install the version you want:

sudo apt-get install gradle-<__version_number__> # e.g. sudo apt-get install gradle-1.12

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To install Gradle on Fedora or other Linux/Unix base distro, you need to do so mannually.

First of all, visit the here and download the version you are interesting.

Once download is done, unzip the file and the move the folder under /opt.

Afterwards, configure the PATH to make Gradle available in terminal, and there are multiple way to achieve this:

Add Symbolic Link
The easiest way is to create a symbolic link for Gradle on /usr/bin; since /usr/bin is the system default path, it will be loaded automatically whenever .bashrc is loaded.

sudo ln -s /opt/gradle-1.12/bin/gradle /usr/bin/gradle

Add to ~/.bash_profile
You can also add the GRADLE_HOME to ~/.bash_profile and export it so that you can just source ~/.bash_profile when you need it.

To do so, you first need to determine if ~/.bash_profile is existed in you system. If not, you need to create it.

ls ~/.bash_profile # should return the full path if ~/.bash_profile is existed
touch ~/.bash_profile # if not create the file

Once ~/.bash_profile is there, open it using vi or whatever editor you prefer, and add these two line to the end of the file:

export GRADLE_HOME="/opt/<gradle_folder_name>/bin"
export PATH=$GRADLE_HOME:$PATH

<gradle_folder_name> is something similar to gradle-1.12 and etc.

Once you are done adding those lines, save and exist the editor and you are good to go. Just do source ~/.bash_profile before you need to use Gradle.

Add to ~/.bashrc
Alternatively, if you use Gradle on a daily basis, you may consider just adding the GRADLE_HOME to your ~/.bashrc because it will then be automatically loaded whenever you open your terminal.

To do so, it is very similar to the instruction of adding it to ~/.bash_profile, but since ~/.bashrc always exist, you can just open it with vi and add the lines to the end of it.

export GRADLE_HOME="/opt/<gradle_folder_name>/bin"
export PATH=$GRADLE_HOME:$PATH

Again, <gradle_folder_name> is something similar to gradle-1.12 and etc.

Once you are done adding those lines, save and exist the editor and you are good to go. Gradle wuold be ready to use whenever you open a terminal.

Or you can run the script here:

wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.12-bin.zip
unzip gradle-1.12-bin.zip
sudo mv gradle-1.12 /opt
sudo rm gradle-1.12-bin.zip
sudo ln -s /opt/gradle-1.12/bin/gradle /usr/bin/gradle

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Download the latest WAMP for Windows from here

Choose the appropriate Thread Safe zip to download, either x86 or x64 based on your operation system.

Install the downloaded file to /c/usr/bin/wamp, or whatever directory you chose. Keep installation configurations default.

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Visit MAMP's download page here to download the latest version of MAMP.

Once download is done, double click the .pkg file to install.

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• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Install LAMP stack in Fedora is pretty simple.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

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Install LAMP stack in Fedora is pretty straightforward.

yum update
sudo yum install httpd
sudo yum install mysql mysql-server
sudo yum install php php-mysql

You are done! LAMP stack is now installed into your Fedora.

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• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu

Download the latest SQLite for Windows from here

Scroll down the page to the "Precompiled Binaries for Windows" section, and download the sqlite-shell and sqlite-dll files.

Or run the following lines on your git bash:

cd ~
curl --remote-name "http://www.sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-shell-win32-x86-3080803.zip"
curl --remote-name "http://www.sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-dll-win32-x86-3080803.zip"

Once both files are downloaded, unzip both of them to /c/usr/bin/sqlite, or whatever directory you chose.

Run git bash as administrator, then go to the bin of git bash by running:

cd /usr/bin

Create a symbolic link by running:

ln -s /c/usr/bin/sqlite/sqlite.exe sqlite.exe

Verified sqlite is installed and properly linked on your machine by running:

sqlite -v

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brew install sqlite3

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sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

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• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

If you use Homebrew as your package manager, installing MySQL is very simple.

brew install mysql

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sudo apt-get install mysql-server

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sudo yum install mysql mysql-server

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PostgreSQL is similar to MySQL and it is the default database used on Heroku.

• Mac
• Ubuntu

brew update
brew install postgresql

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sudo apt-get install postgresql

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• Ubuntu
• Fedora

sudo apt-get install guake

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sudo yum install guake

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Chef is a tool for provisioning servers.

• Mac
• Chef Tools
  • Knife-solo
  • Librarian-Chef

You can install chef through gem:

gem install chef

However, a self-contained package is recommended, so you can also install chef through this script provided by the creators of chef:

curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash

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Knife-solo contains a set of command line tools that would make using chef-solo as easier.

gem install knife-solo

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Librarian-Chef is a tool that helps you to manage cookbooks.

gem install librarian-chef

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Vagrant is a tool for building development environment.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Visit Vagrant's download page and download the .msi file for Windows.

Once downloaded, double click to install.

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Visit Vagrant's download page and download the .dmg file for Mac OS.

Once downloaded, double click to install.

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Visit Vagrant's download page and download the .deb file for Ubuntu.

Once downloaded, naviagate to the download destination, and execute:

sudo dpkg -i vagrant*

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Visit Vagrant's download page and download the .rpm file for Fedora.

rpm -U vagrant*

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Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) and you can learn more about it on its homepage.

Although it is now recommended to use Android Studio for Android development, you can use eclipse as your IDE if you prefer to. I use one of its variant called Eclipse IDE for Java Developers because it is relatively smaller than other variants. You can feel to use the standard one or other of its variant as well.

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Visit the Eclipse's homepage and download the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers that fits your system (either 32 or 64 bit)

Once the file is downloaded, unzip it and drag the unziped folder to application, then right click the eclipse icon inside the folder and click open.

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sudo apt-get install eclipse

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sudo yum install eclipse

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You can get Android SDK from its developer page under Get SDK for an existing IDE.

Once the compressed file is downloaded, unzip it and place it in the same folder of eclipse, or whatever folder you like.

Follow the installation process for your system:

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Navigate to the SDK folder and open its user interface, which would to let you select SDKs and tools to download.

You need the following packages from the SDK:

./Tools/Android SDK Tools
./Tools/Android SDK Build-tools
./Tools/Android SDK Platform-tools
./Extra/Android Support Repository
./Extra/Android Support Library
./<whatever_API_version>/SDK Platform
./<whatever_API_version>/ARM EABI v7a System Image

Select those package and click on the "install packages" button on the bottom right, and then follow the instruction to complete the installation.

Choose the appropriate Thread Safe zip to download, either x86 or x64 based on your operation system.

unzip the downloaded file to /c/usr/bin/android, or whatever directory you chose.

Navigate to the directory and open the SDK Manager:

cd /c/usr/bin/android/
open SDK\ Manager.exe

Select the packages listed in here to install.

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You can get Android SDK from its developer page under "Get SDK for an existing IDE".

Once downloaded, unzip and place it in the same folder of eclipse, or whatever folder you like.

Open terminal, then running:

cd <whatever_folder_path>/sdk/tools
./android sdk

Once the command lines in above is executed, it should popup an user interface to let you select SDKs and tools to download.

You need the following package from the SDK:

./Tools/Android SDK Tools
./Tools/Android SDK Build-tools
./Tools/Android SDK Platform-tools
./Extra/Android Support Repository
./Extra/Android Support Library
./<whatever_API_version>/SDK Platform
./<whatever_API_version>/ARM EABI v7a System Image

Select those package and click on the "install packages" button on the bottom right, and then follow the instruction to complete the installation.

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Visit the developer page and download the SDK Tool only for Linux 32 and 64 bit

Once download is done, unzip it and move it to the /opt/android-sdk-linux folder, then add export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android-sdk-linux to the ~/.bash_profile.

If you are in Linux 64 bit OS, you may also need to install the 32 bit shared libraries.

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 zlib1g:i386

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Follow the same instruction as Ubuntu.

If you are in Linux 64 bit OS, you may also need to install the 32 bit shared libraries.

sudo yum install glibc.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libstdc++.i686 zlib-devel.i686 ncurses-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 libXrender.i686 libXrandr.i686

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ADT stands for Android Development Toolkit.

Once Eclipse is installed, open it and navigate to its Help -> Install New Software.

On the wizard of Install New Software, click on the add button and paste https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ to location and put Android Development Toolkit plugin on name, then press OK.

Back to the wizard, click on the drop down list of Work with and select the url item that you just added.

It may take a while for eclipse to get the plugin information, but once the available plugin is displayed, click Select All under the displaying section, and then Next on the bottom right. Then follow the instruction to install and plugin and restart Eclipse once the installation is done.

• src folder empty on creating new Android project

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VirtualBox is a tool for setting up virtualization machine.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Visit VirtualBox's download page and download the .exe file for Windows.

Once downloaded, double click to install.

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Visit VirtualBox's download page and download the .dmg file for Mac.

Once downloaded, double click to install.

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The easy way is to use apt-get, but it may not be the latest version.

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

You can download and install the latest version manually.

For Ubuntu 13.04 and above, you can download the x86 deb file or x64 deb file, navigate to the download destination, and then install it with command: sudo dpkg -i virtualbox*.

For other ubuntu version or linux distro, just visit its download page for Linux, and download the deb or rpm file accordingly.

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It requires a little bit more work to install VirtualBox on Fedora.

Before all, please run sudo yum update to get the latest updates and then restart the computer if there are new updates were installed.

Navigate to the repository directory and add the virtualbox repo

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo  wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

Then, perform another sudo yum update and install the reuqired llibraries:

sudo yum install kernel-devel dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers

Once the libraries are installed, you can install VirtualBox:

sudo yum install VirtualBox-4.3.x86_64

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PyCharm is an IDE based on IntelliJ IDEA for Python development.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Donwload PyCharm from its home page on here

Once download is completed, double click the .exe file and follow the instruction to install.

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Donwload PyCharm from its home page on here

Once download is completed, double click the .dmg file and follow the instruction to install.

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Donwload PyCharm from its home page on here

Once download is down, unzip it and move it to the /opt/pycharm

make a symbolic link

sudo ln -s /opt/pycharm/bin/pycharm.sh /usr/bin/pycharm

Setup Desktop Icon:

sudo touch /usr/share/applications/pycharm.desktop

content="
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PyCharm
GenericName=Python IDE
Type=Application
Exec=pycharm %U
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/pycharm/bin/pycharm.png
Comment=PyCharm
NoDisplay=false
Categories=Development;IDE
Keywords=IDE;PyCharm;Development;IntelliJ
Name[en]=PyCharm
";

echo "$content" >> /usr/share/applications/pycharm.desktop;

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Follow the same instruction as Ubuntu.

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Android Studio is a Integrated Development Environment based on IntelliJ IDEA for Android development.

Note that the latest version of Android Studio requires Gradle 2.2 and above; therefore, please make sure you have it installed. You can also follow the instruction of installing Gradle in here.

Also, Android development requires Java, please follow its instruction to install the it.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Download Android Studio from its home page

Once download is done, follow the instruction to install Android Studio and SDK.

Note that Android Studio requires access to public internet in order to download dependencies and build. In case that you have denied its access, you can visit Control Panel -> System and Security -> Windows Firewall -> Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall to grant it public internet access permission.

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Download Android Studio from its home page here

Once download is done, unzip it and then move the .app file to Application folder.

The newer version of Android Studio for Mac no long comes with Android SDK, therefore, you need to download the SDK seperately from here.

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Donwload and install:

wget https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/1.1.0/android-studio-ide-135.1740770-linux.zip
unzip android-studio-ide-135.1740770-linux.zip
sudo mv android-studio /opt/android-studio
sudo mv -f android-studio-ide-135.1740770-linux.zip ~/Downloads/
sudo ln -s /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh /usr/bin/aso

(Optional for version 1.0.+) Setup Desktop Icon:

sudo touch /usr/share/applications/android-studio.desktop

content="
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Android Studio
GenericName=Android IDE
Type=Application
Exec=aso %U
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/android-studio/bin/androidstudio.ico
Comment=Android Studio
NoDisplay=false
Categories=Development;IDE
Keywords=IDE;Android;Studio;Development;IntelliJ
Name[en]=Android Studio
";

echo "$content" >> /usr/share/applications/android-studio.desktop;

The newer version of Android Studio for Linux no long comes with Android SDK, therefore, you need to download the SDK seperately from here.

To setup Android Virtual Machine (AVD) on Ubuntu, you need to first enable CPU virtualization technology on your BIOS.

Afterwards, you need to install Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM)

sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm ubuntu-vm-builder

Once installation is done, restart your computer, and you will now be able to use AVD.

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Follow the same instruction of Ubuntu.

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RSpec is a Behavior Driven Development tool. Rails is its prerequisite.

To verify Rails is installed in your machine, you can run:

rails -v # should show the version number

• Windows

gem install rspec

Once installation is done, verify it by running:

which rspec

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iTerm2 is essential a terminal armed with more features. You can download it here.

Once download is completed, unzip the package and double click .app file to install it.

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Homebrew is a package manager for Mac.

To install homebrew, simply open your terminal and running:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

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Tilda is an alternative of the system's default terminal, which I found some of its additional features are very handy.

• Ubuntu
• Fedora

You can install Tilda by running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tilda

Once Tilda is successfully installed, you can configure it by running:

tilda -C

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sudo yum install tilda

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SmartGit is an open source GUI for Git. You can learn more about it on its home page

• Ubuntu
• Fedora

You can install it through PPA. To add the sublime PPA, run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Once the PPA is added and updated, you can install SmartGit by running:

sudo apt-get install smartgithg

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sudo yum install smartgithg

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LAMP referes to a software bundle including Linux Apache MySQL PHP. You can learn more about it on its server guide or wiki.

• Ubuntu
• Fedora

You can install LAMP in Ubuntu by running:

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Or alternatively:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

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sudo yum update
sudo yum install httpd mysql php php-mysql

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Redis is an open source key-value cache.

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

brew install redis

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You need to download and install redis mannually on Ubuntu.

wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.19.tar.gz
tar xzf redis-2.8.19.tar.gz
cd redis-2.8.19
make

Once installation is done, you can remove the folder and the zip file by running:

cd ..
rm -rf redis-2.8.19
rm redis-2.8.19.tar.gz

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Follow the same instruction as Ubuntu

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iPython An enhanced Interactive Python. To install ipython, you will need to have pip

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

sudo pip install ipython gnureadline

gnureadline is strongly recommended because readline will not behave well without it.

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sudo pip install ipython

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Follow the same instruction as Ubuntu

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Bower is a package manager for the web. You need npm in order to install bower.

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

npm install -g bower

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Follow the same instruction as Mac.

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Follow the same instruction as Mac.

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• Mac
• Ubuntu

You need bower as a prerequisite

bower install jquery

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Follow the same instruction as Mac.

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Rust is an open source system programming language developed by Mozilla.

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

Visit its home page and download the install package.

After download is done, just double click it to install.

If you prefer command line installation, you can do so with:

curl -s https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sudo sh

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curl -s https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sudo sh

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curl -s https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sudo sh

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Go is an open source programming language developed by Google.

• Windows
• Mac
• Ubuntu

Visit Go's download page and download the latest .msi file, which is in bold.

Once download is completed, double click the file and follow its instruction to install. Note that you need to remove any old version of Go.

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Visit Go's download page and download the latest .pkg file, which is in bold.

Once download is completed, double click the file and follow its instruction to install. Note that you need to remove any old version of Go.

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Visit Go's source install page and follow there instruction there to install.

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Tree is a recursive directory listing tool with nice indentation and color codes.

• Mac
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

brew install tree

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sudo apt-get install tree

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sudo yum install tree

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Trailer is a Github pull request tracker.

• Mac

Download the app from its home page.

Once download is completed, double click the file to install.

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You can configure your shell to have it memorize some convenient shortcuts.

If you are in Windows, you can open git bash as administrator by right click on the icon of git bash and select "Run as Administrator".

If you are in Mac or other Unix/Linux-base operating system, just open up your terminal.

Automatic Way
Copy and paste the following codes to your terminal and hit enter/return to run them:

cd ~
\curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ctrl-alt-del/devenv/master/util/setup_bash_profile.sh
chmod 755 setup_bash_profile.sh
./setup_bash_profile.sh

this should create a .bash_profile file if it is not existed and inject the shortcuts to the file.

Manual Way
If you prefer to create the .bash_profile file manually, you can do so by running: touch -pv ~/.bash_profile on your terminal, if will create the file if it hasn't been created. Afterwards, you can open it by running: sudo vi ~/.bash_profileand then add the scripts to it. I use vi in this case, but you are free to use whatever editor you like, such as vim, nano, gedit, subl, atom and etc.

After the .bash_profile is created, restart the git bash to let the changes take effect.

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Chrome is a browser, but it can also be a very useful web development tool with some extensions.

Once Chrome is installed, you can start installing extensions by navigating to chrome://extensions/ on its address bar to enter the extension manager. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on get more extensions to reach the chrome web store page of extensions.

Alternatively, you can visit the Chrome web store page to get the extensions.

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EditThisCookie is a cookie manager that allow developer to modify cookies of a page in real for development and testing purpose.

To intall the extension, just click on the blue + Free button the top right corner.

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REST Console is an tool for testing HTTP requests on APIs. It allows user to quickly test a url.

To intall the extension, just click on the blue + Free button the top right corner.

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Postman is similar with REST Console, but it has history of all the requests that you have made.

To intall the extension, just click on the blue + Free button the top right corner.

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JSON View is a tool that parses JSON into a more human readable format.

To intall the extension, just click on the blue + Free button the top right corner.

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