A simple way to setup a new MacOS laptop/desktop for development, using just one command.

To install, copy the below command and paste it in your terminal:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sydrawat01/dotfiles/master/osx.sh)"

Clone this repository in your desired path using:

https://github.com/sydrawat01/dotfiles.git

To run the script to install all basic software with personal configs on your Mac, use this shell script: osx.sh.

Although not required, provide exec permissions to this file, just to avoid any problems executing the shell script:

chmod +x osx.sh

Then, run the file:

./osx.sh

The GNU Stow is an open source project that helps maintain "symlink farms". I'm using it to maintain symlinks to my system configuration files that live in my $HOME directory, mostly the .config/, .zshrc, .zshrc_aliases, .tmux, .vimrc and other such application configs. This way, I have full control of my application settings, and can be synced across multiple devices since they are version controlled using Git.

Once all softwares are installed as in the previous step using the osx.sh shell script, we need to install a couple of things manually before we can fully utilize stow.

Install Node Version Manager or nvm, which is required by some Lua packages for LazyVim (in turn NeoVim), this way we avoid any errors when using symlinks to setup NeoVim. With nvm installed, we will then install the LTS version of node, which will also install npm for us.

brew install nvm
# check nvm
nvm --version
nvm install --lts
# check node and npm
node --version
npm --version

With this, we can now setup our dotfiles with stow. If you have not already cloned this repository, do it now, and place it in a location where you want to manage your dotfiles from.

Now, let's run the stow command to generate symlinks with the dotfiles option, which is optimized for handling dotfiles symlinks.

# cd into the dotfiles folder.
cd ~/Developer/dotfiles
stow --dotfiles . --target=~/

The above command should automatically generate symlinks based on the folder structure (works with nested directories as well).

Install Devops related tools with homebrew in the install script osx.sh.

Siddharth Rawat