Setup a New Developer Computer

This script will help with the quick setup and installation of tools and applications for new developers at Vendasta. Tested in Mac OS 10.14 to 12. This script hasn't been tested on M1 Macs.

You can run this script multiple times without issue. You can also run it on a partially set-up computer and it will only install what is missing.

The script will create/modify .bash_profile and .zprofile with path and autocomplete sources. If you do run it on an already set-up computer, please check these files for any duplicated paths/imports/etc.

Looking to use this script at your own company? Check out the tips for using the script at your own company section.

Installation Instructions

Download the script setup-new-computer.sh to your home folder
Open Terminal and navigate to where you saved it
Make the script executable:
```
chmod +x ./setup-new-computer.sh
```
Run the script:
```
./setup-new-computer.sh
```
Some installs will need your password
You will be promted to fill out your git email and name. Use the email and name you use for Github

Post Installation Instructions

Afer you have run the script, please complete the following steps to finish setting up your computers:

Github Command-line SSH Authentication
Do the following to authorize Github on your computer:
- Generate an SSH key for your new computer
- Add the SSH public key to your Github account
Vendasta specific tools
Follow our onboarding document to complete your setup:
- Onboarding New Developers - Setup New Developer’s Computer - Next Steps

Post Installation Tips

Fix ZSH Errors
If you are using ZSH as your shell (default in newer Mac OS versions) you may get this error after running the setup script:

zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list.
Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]?

You can fix this by running the following command in your terminal:

compaudit | xargs chmod g-w

Setting Up Pycharm with Mac OS Python
Vendasta Python projects Do Not Work with homebrew Python.
In Pycharm, when you choose a Project Interpreter, make a custom one set to /usr/bin/python

Mac OS Python 2 and Homebrew 3
Vendasta's Python projects do not work properly with Homebrew Python. This can cause confusion, as many tools need homebrew Python. Here is how to use the different Pythons:

The built-in Mac OS Python and it's pip are available as python and pip.
Homebrew Python 3 and it's pip is available as python3 and pip3

If pip installation fails when using sudo -H /usr/bin/easy_install pip try running sudo -H python -m ensurepip

Fix Python Google SDK errors
If you're seeing errors like ImportError: cannot import name apiproxy or other google app engine errors, try to downgrade the SDK to older version by running gcloud components update --version 359.0.0

Installing Node versions
Use nvm to install and upgrade different versions of Node. Official docs
We use the Node v14 at Vendasta.

# Install the latest version of Node 14 with NPM
nvm install 14

# Install a specific version of Node
nvm install 12      # or 10.10.0, 8.9.1, etc

Upgrading Node and NPM
There is a handy command in your .bash_profile and .zsh_profile that will automatically upgrade to the latest version of Node 14 and NPM, plus it will re-install any global packages you have installed so you do not have to manually do it each time. Read more about it here

node-upgrade        # update node 14 and reinstall all global packages

Switching Node Versions
Use nvm to switch between installed versions of Node. Official docs

# To switch to the latest Node
nvm use node        # "node" is an alias for the latest version
# Switch to long term support (lts) version of Node
nvm use --lts
 
# To switch to a specific verison of Node
nvm use 11          # or 10.10.0, 8.9.1, etc

Keeping your tools up-to-date
Homebrew can keep your commandline tools and languages up-to-date.

# List what needs to be updated
brew update
brew outdated
 
# Upgrade a specific app/formula (example: git)
brew upgrade git

# Upgrade everything
brew upgrade
  
# List previous versions installed (example: git)
brew switch git list
 
# Roll back to a currently installed previous version (example: git 2.25.0)
brew switch git 2.25.0

What's Installed

Shell Profile Setup (Bash and Zsh)

.bash_profile

The following will be added to your ~/.bash_profile

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# Begin Bash autogenerated content from setup-new-computer.sh   $VERSION
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

# Supress "Bash no longer supported" message
export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1

# Setting up Path for Homebrew
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

# Setup Path for Local Python Installs
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin

# Bash Autocompletion
if type brew &>/dev/null; then
HOMEBREW_PREFIX="$(brew --prefix)"
if [[ -r "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh" ]]; then
 source "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh"
else
 for COMPLETION in "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/etc/bash_completion.d/"*; do
   [[ -r "$COMPLETION" ]] && source "$COMPLETION"
 done
fi
fi

# Google Cloud SDK
[ -e "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc" ] && 
 source "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc"
[ -e "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc" ] && 
 source "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc"

# Golang
export GOPRIVATE="github.com/vendasta"
export GOPROXY="direct"
export GO111MODULE="on"
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN

# NVM
# This needs to be after "Setting up Path for Homebrew" to override Homebrew Node
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

# Node
# Increases the default memory limit for Node, so larger Anglar prjects can be built
export NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=8192

# Update Node lts and reinstall previous packages
node-upgrade() {
 prev_ver=$(nvm current)
 nvm install 14
 nvm reinstall-packages "$prev_ver"
 nvm uninstall "$prev_ver"
 nvm cache clear
}

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# End autogenerated content from setup-new-computer.sh   $VERSION
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

.zprofile

The following will be added to your ~/.zprofile

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# Begin ZSH autogenerated content from setup-new-computer.sh   $VERSION
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

# Setting up Path for Homebrew
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

# Setup Path for Local Python Installs
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin

# Brew Autocompletion
if type brew &>/dev/null; then
 fpath+=$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions
fi

# Zsh Autocompletion
# Note: must run after Brew Autocompletion
autoload -U +X compinit && compinit
autoload -U +X bashcompinit && bashcompinit
fpath=(/usr/local/share/zsh-completions $fpath)

# Google Cloud SDK
[ -e "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc" ] &&     source "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc"
[ -e "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc" ] &&     source "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc"

# Golang
export GOPRIVATE="github.com/vendasta"
export GOPROXY="direct"
export GO111MODULE="on"
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN

# NVM 
# This needs to be after "Setting up Path for Homebrew" to override Homebrew Node
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] &&     source "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] &&     source "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

# Node
# Increases the default memory limit for Node, so larger Anglar prjects can be built
export NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=8192

# Update Node lts and reinstall previous packages
node-upgrade() {
 prev_ver=$(nvm current)
 nvm install 14
 nvm reinstall-packages "$prev_ver"
 nvm uninstall "$prev_ver"
 nvm cache clear
}

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# End autogenerated content from setup-new-computer.sh   $VERSION
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

Commandline tools and languages

Xcode CLI Development Tools

xcode-select --install

Homebrew (brew)

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Bash (with Bash Completions)

brew install bash
brew install bash-completion

Zsh Completions

brew install zsh-completions

Git

brew install git

Github CLI (gh)

brew install hub

Hub (unofficial commandline Github)

brew install gh

ack

brew install ack

Silver Searcher (ag)

brew install ag

Languages

Go

mkdir -p ~/go
brew install go
go env -w GOPRIVATE="github.com/vendasta"

Mac OS Python (Installing Pip, Invoke, Requests, lxml, pyCrypto, Virtualenv)

sudo -H /usr/bin/easy_install pip==20.3.4    # Installing Pip for MacOS Python
sudo -H pip install --upgrade "pip < 21.0"   # Upgrading Pip to last python2 supported version
sudo -H pip install --quiet invoke
sudo -H pip install --quiet requests
sudo -H pip install --quiet lxml
sudo -H pip install --quiet pyCrypto
sudo -H pip install --quiet virtualenv

Homebrew Python 3 (with pip3)

brew reinstall python

Node (from nvm, with npm, nx, husky, Angular CLI, Node-Sass, and Node-Gyp)

getLastestNVM() {
    # From https://gist.github.com/lukechilds/a83e1d7127b78fef38c2914c4ececc3c
    # Get latest release from GitHub api | Get tag line | Pluck JSON value
    curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/nvm-sh/nvm/releases/latest" | 
        grep '"tag_name":' |
        sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'
}
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/$(getLastestNVM)/install.sh | bash
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
nvm install 14
npm install -g @angular/cli
npm install -g nx
npm install -g husky
npm install -g node-sass
npm install -g node-gyp

We will also create a new file called ~/.huskyrc and fill it with:

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# Begin Husky autogenerated content from setup-new-computer.sh   vX
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

# This loads nvm.sh and sets the correct PATH before running hook

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && source "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
   

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# End autogenerated content from setup-new-computer.sh   vX
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

Ruby

brew install ruby

Google Cloud Components

brew install --cask google-cloud-sdk
source "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc"
source "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc"
if [ -e ~/google-cloud-sdk ]; then
    echo "✔ ~/google-cloud-sdk exists. Skipping"
else
    echo "✔ Creating ~/google-cloud-sdk symlink"
    ln -s "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk" ~/google-cloud-sdk &>/dev/null
    # make a convenience symlink at the install path for google-cloud-sdk when installed manually
fi
gcloud components install app-engine-go --quiet
gcloud components install app-engine-python --quiet
gcloud components install app-engine-python-extras --quiet
gcloud components install kubectl --quiet
gcloud components install docker-credential-gcr --quiet

Applications

Slack

brew install -cask slack

Firefox

brew install --cask firefox

Google Chrome

brew install --cask google-chrome

Docker for Mac

brew install --cask docker

Postman

brew install --cask postman

Optional IDEs and Tools

Visual Studio Code

brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Jetbrains Toolbox

brew install --cask jetbrains-toolbox

Pycharm

brew install --cask pycharm

Goland

brew install --cask goland

WebStorm

brew install --cask webstorm

Sublime Text

brew install --cask sublime-text

iTerm2

brew install --cask iterm2

System Tweaks

General: Expand save and print panel by default

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode2 -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint2 -bool true

General: Save to disk (not to iCloud) by default

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false

General: Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true

Typing: Disable smart quotes and dashes as they cause problems when typing code

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled -bool false
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled -bool false

Typing: Disable press-and-hold for keys in favor of key repeat

defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Finder: Show status bar and path bar

defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowPathbar -bool true

Finder: Disable the warning when changing a file extension

defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false

Finder: Show the ~/Library folder

chflags nohidden ~/Library

Safari: Enable Safari’s Developer Settings

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDevelopMenu -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtrasEnabledPreferenceKey -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DeveloperExtrasEnabled -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Chrome: Disable the all too sensitive backswipe on Trackpads and Magic Mice

defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false
defaults write com.google.Chrome.canary AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false
defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableMouseSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false
defaults write com.google.Chrome.canary AppleEnableMouseSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false

Chrome: Use the system print dialog and expand dialog by default

defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -bool true
defaults write com.google.Chrome.canary DisablePrintPreview -bool true
defaults write com.google.Chrome PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint2 -bool true
defaults write com.google.Chrome.canary PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint2 -bool true

Set up Git

Configure git to always ssh when dealing with https github repos

git config --global url."[email protected]:".insteadOf https://github.com/

Set Git to store credentials in Keychain

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

Set git display name and email

if [ -n "$(git config --global user.email)" ]; then
  echo "✔ Git email is set to $(git config --global user.email)"
else
  read -p 'What is your Git email address?: ' gitEmail
  git config --global user.email "$gitEmail"
fi

if [ -n "$(git config --global user.name)" ]; then
  echo "✔ Git display name is set to $(git config --global user.name)"
else
  read -p 'What is your Git display name (Firstname Lastname)?: ' gitName
  git config --global user.name "$gitName"
fi

Tips for using the script at your own company

This script helps new developers at Vendasta setup their laptops quicker, letting them hit the ground running. Before, it could take 2-5 days to install and configure everything, leading to a frustrating first week. With this script and fast internet, the process can be done in under 30 min.

I have tried to make this script simple and useful. You will want to customize the installation and configuration to match the tools and services you use at your company.

At Vendasta, we are using Python 2, Go, Angular, and Google Cloud. You most likely do not use all of these, so remove, change, and tweak to meet your needs.
We lock our Node version at 14 (using NVM) for best compatability with Angular and NX. You will likely want to change this.
To customize the welcome logo and add a bit of style, I used the handy Text to ASCII Art Generator
When you update the script, remember to update the readme "What's Installed" section too
Be sure to update both the .bash_profile and .zprofile
This is MIT licensed, so be sure to include the LICENSE file
Let me know! It is good to know if you find this helpful

Resources and inspiration

The following examples were helpful in building this script.

macOS Dev Setup
https://github.com/nicolashery/mac-dev-setup
dev-setup
https://github.com/donnemartin/dev-setup#dev-setup
thoughtbot/laptop
https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop

Todo: Prep for M1 compatibility

Install Rosetta 2 (Is it not installed by default or automatically?)
/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta
or sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta agree-to-license
Set the new M1 location of homebrew up in the path
/opt/homebrew/bin
More reading:
- https://www.wisdomgeek.com/development/installing-intel-based-packages-using-homebrew-on-the-m1-mac/
- Homebrew/discussions#417

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