Install Homebrew
The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
We will be using Homebrew to manage everything for us, if you don't have it installed, go ahead and do it now!
echo “[ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_completion ] && . /usr/local/etc/bash_completion” >> ~/.bash_profile
Install Fira Code
Monospaced font with programming ligatures
brew tap caskroom/fonts
brew cask install font-fira-code
Install Starship
Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell!
The prompt shows information you need while you’re working, while staying sleek and out of the way.
brew install starship
In your .bashrc
or .zshrc
file (swap bash or zsh accordingly):
eval "$(starship init bash)"
Install One Dark theme for iTerm2
A dark syntax theme
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nathanbuchar/atom-one-dark-terminal/master/scheme/iterm/One%20Dark.itermcolors
You can choose any colour scheme you like, my preferred is One Dark which was originally a theme for Atom.
I chose to use the port made by Nathan Buchar because it's the most actively maintained for iTerm.
Colours
Open preferences in iTerm and navigate to Profiles > Colors
then in bottom right, from the dropdown color presets
choose import...
and import the file we downloaded.
And that's it, we now have a nicely styled and customised terminal.
Top comments (2)
I'm aware that linuxbrew exists, but I wouldn't say it was a "missing package manager". MacOS and Windows are the only mainstream OSs that don't come with a package manager built in.
I took the quote directly from their website. I agree with you otherwise. I guess they are just able to provide more packages that you may not find otherwise.