dotfiles

By Evan Wiegers

Downloads

1. zsh and affiliated resources

• i. zsh itself - brew install zsh
  
• ii. oh my zsh - sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  
• iii. powerlevel9k - git clone https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel9k
  
• iv. zsh plugins
  • i. autosuggestions - git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
    
  • ii. syntax highlighting - git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
    
  • iii. completions - git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-completions
    

2. iTerm2 - Download
3. Nerd Fonts (Patched Fonts) - Download or use brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts; brew search nerd; brew cask install robotomono-complete-nerd-font
4. Visual Studio Code - Download
5. Eslint and Prettier - Download via Visual Studio Code Extensions

Tutorial

1. Clone repo git clone https://github.com/Danixar/dotfiles.git

For zsh and git

2. Download parts 1 to 3 of the above resources
3. Set iTerm2 font/non-ascii-font (RobotoMono Nerd Font), colour preset (Dark Background), and keyboard preset (natural text editing)
4. Configure dotfiles by creating .zshrc and .profile in $HOME and add source commands to them to run their respective dotfiles from this git repository:

• ~/.zshrc source ~/path/to/dotfiles/.zshrc
• ~/.profile source ~/path/to/dotfiles/.profile
• ~ git --config include.path '~/path/to/dotfiles/.gitconfig'

5. Create files ~/secrets.sh or ~/dotfiles/.secrets.sh to include all secrets

For eslint and prettier

6. Download parts 4 and 5 of the above resources
7. Within a node project, apply the following commands:

npm i -D eslint prettier eslint-plugin-prettier eslint-config-prettier eslint-plugin-node eslint-config-node
npx install-peerdeps --dev eslint-config-airbnb

8. Copy .eslintrc.json and .prettierrc to the project via:

cp ~/path/to/dotfiles/.eslintrc.json ~/path/to/project/.eslintrc.json 
cp ~/path/to/dotfiles/.prettierc ~/path/to/project/.prettierrc

Links

1. zsh
2. Oh my zsh
3. Nerd Fonts
4. Powerlevel9k
5. Visual Studio Code
6. Eslint
7. Prettier