dotfiles (Mac Edition)

Introduction

The main branch is where my dotfiles reside for my Macbook Pro. Switch to the ubuntu branch for my take on configuring dot files for Ubuntu.

Kudos to Patrick McDonald and check out his course on Udemy which these dotfile are based.

Please note however that I deviated and made changes based on my preferences and the way I work.

We are using DotBot to orchestrate the dotfiles configuration and installation of other tools (brew, antidote etc).

Links

The install script will first configure the following links:

• ~/.zsh_plugins.txt Used with the zsh plugin manager antidote this is linked to the antidote_plugins file
• ~/.zshrc
• ~/.zshenv
• ~/.gitconfig Make sure to edit this file and change the user and email details to match yours
• ~/.config/bat directory that stores the bat config file
• ~/.config/yamllint directory that stores the yamllint config file

Create

The install script will next create a ~/work directory.

Shell

Finally the install script will run the following setup scripts:

./setup_antidote.zsh

Installs the zsh plugin manager antidote and applies the plugins specified in the antidote_plugins file

./setup_homebrew.zsh

Installs homebrew and proceeds to install the brews specified in the Brewfile

./setup_node.sh

Installs node (lts) and npm using the node version manager n and installs some node packages (I'm not installing any packages here at the moment as I don't use node that much). The n node version manager itself is installed via homebrew in the setup_homebrew.zsh script via the brew bundle command.

./setup_iterm2.sh

Runs defaults to set a custom folder for loading preferences from file.

./setup_vscode.zsh

Applies the settings.json file to the VSCode user configuration directory if it exists and then installs extensions specified in the vscode_extensions file. VSCode itself is installed via homebrew in the setup_homebrew.zsh script via the brew bundle command.