I usually love to tear down my laptop from time to time and re-install everything. I don't know why but I'd like to keep my setup clean and lean. And I find it easy to just start from scratch rather than figuring out what is installed and keep cleaning them.
Recently I realised that I'm doing mundane things of re-installing applications which was not fun. So I wanted to automate the whole process and this repository contains the scripts needed to do that.
I'd like to reach a state where after setup a new Macbook I just download script from Github and run it and go make a cup of coffee ☕️ and come back to see everything that I need ready. It should look something like at the end.
There are a couple of ways to install the apps.
For this to work all you need to do is run the following command which takes care of pulling the latest version of this repository and installing from there.
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rvignesh89/mac-starter/0.0.1/install.sh | bashJust clone this repo and install what you need. This way you have more control on what exactly you want to install.
I use my Mac mainly for development and playing some games on Steam. So it's going to be minimal setup with contains the following softwares.
- Homebrew
- Google Chrome
- Rectangle
- iTerm2
- Visual Studio Code
- Spotify
- Notion
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- Team Viewer
- Onedrive
- Yammer
- IntelliJ Ultimate
- Docker
- Java
- dotnet
- Go@1.14
- gradle
- Oh-My-Zsh
- SSH keys
- nvm
- CockroachDB
- Postman
- jq
- tree
I've changed the following behaviours in OSX
- Change tap to press - By default I need to press to press 🙄
- Show only active items in dock - I don't like clutter.
- Increase keyrepeat and delay keyrepeat delay - I assume most devs like it this way.
- Add bottom right corner as hot corner for locking screen
I'm using mas-cli to automate installation for the following apps. This installation uses ids listed in mas search <app> command to ensure the correct app is installed. It also skips installation if the app is already present.
- iMovie
- xcode
For the moment testing involves running the bootstrap.sh in mac-os using Github Actions. If the script runs without any issues most of the installation should work. But I have noticed that app store apps won't be installed because that requires you to have logged in to App Store before hand which I'm sure is not availabl on Github actions.
For now this feels enough.
There is some level of automation which might be possible but I've not attempted to do it, like extensions in Chrome. Maybe something that I might attempt sometime in the future.