Setting-Up-MacOS-for-Dev

Useful steps and tips to set up a MacOS for iOS development

1. Setup your AppleID

2. Setup your terminal emulator

Install Homebrew, the best package manager for macOS. In the Terminal:

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

Install iTerm2 with Homebrew, iTerm2 is a good alternative to the Terminal included in macOS.

brew cask install iTerm2

Install Z shell (Zsh), a command shell with very efficient command-line completion, spelling corrections, command history...

On the terminal:

brew install zsh

Install Oh My ZSH!, a community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

With Oh My ZSH!, you can add useful plugins to your shell, create aliases for commonly used functions, change auto-completion settings, change the theme of your shell... Everything is configurable in the file .zshrc that you can find in the root of your user folder: ~/.zshrc.

You can edit this file using Vim by typing in the terminal:

vi ~/.zshrc

Or even using TextEdit:

open ~/.zshrc

At this point you can do whatever personalization you desire.

My setup:

1. Change the color profile of iTerm2 to the colorPreset in this repository. In iTerm2:

Preferences -> Profiles -> Colors -> Color Presets... -> Import...

Select the file colorPreset.itermcolors.

2. In .zshrc, I set ZSH_THEME to "pygmalion".

3. Install neofetch to have a pretty launching screen.

brew install neofetch

Your terminal should end up looking like this: