Mac-Setup-Guide

Setting up a macbook for development!
Note: The following set of instructions were carried out on a fresh MacBook M1 Pro 14 with MacOS Monterey v12.5

Install Homebrew

https://brew.sh/

Check is brew is installed properly

which brew
brew help

Install Browser of Choice

Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Edge

Install VSCode

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Install NVM

Run the following commands

brew update
brew install nvm

Create NVM's working directory and zshrc file

mkdir ~/.nvm
touch ~/.zshrc

Add the following configurations to the zshrc file

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
#This loads nvm
[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"
#This loads nvm bash_completion
[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && . "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"

Check if nvm is installed properly

nvm help

Install Node (using NVM)

nvm install node

Install Mongodb Community

Run the following commands

brew update
brew tap mongodb/brew

Install the version of choice (5.0 used as an example)

brew install [email protected]

Add the following configuration to zshrc file

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH"

Install Rosetta for Apple M1 Silicon Chip

softwareupdate --install-rosetta

Check if mongodb is installed properly

mongo --version
mongod --version
mongos --version
mongosh --version
which mongo

Starting and stopping mongodb server

brew services start mongodb/brew/[email protected]
brew services stop mongodb/brew/[email protected]

Add configurations to mongod

mongod --config /opt/homebrew/etc/mongod.conf --fork

Start server

mongosh