![]() If you aren’t using Homebrew, consider adopting it. ![]() This is easy… especially if you are using The first step is to get Oh My ZSH and iTerm installed. After getting these setup, I then apply a custom theme and add a few customizations to make my prompt just perfect. Is the MacOS Terminal replacement, also community backed, that is very configurable. , a community-driven framework for managing the config of the popular For me (and most people), it’s too basic. It is very basic just like you’d expect as an OS included tool. ![]() MacOS includes a default command prompt… that is Terminal. The closest configurable command prompt I would recommend is Oh, before I go too far if you’re a Windows person, this isn’t for you. This post includes some of what I learned from his post as well as my own tweaks. The end of this post includes a form where you can download a script & the resources needed to make your prompt look like this. current git branch name & status (if in a git repo).current version of Node.js (if you are using NVM).There are a few key points about this prompt: This post will show you how to configure your command prompt to look like this: I get this question a lot when sharing screenshots or doing a presentation and wanted a resource to point people to. In this week’s post I want to share how I set up my terminal on my laptop. My last post I explained why I like using NVM to not only facilitate but manage multiple Node.js installations I am working on a series of posts that aren’t specific to the SharePoint Framework but are tangentially related to the development experience. In spending time with and talking to developers making this jump, I’m finding they are interested in some of the tools and things I use. This style of development leverages popular open source tools built on Node.js and developers more time in the terminal/console than they are used to. Check it out, and you might love it too.Many if not most traditional SharePoint developers are new to the dev stack and build tool chain Microsoft selected for SharePoint Framework development. Press Configure Status Bar to customize the bar.Profiles → Session → Status bar enabled.Appearance → Status bar location (select option Top).Appearance → Tab bar location (select option Top).Appearance → Theme (select option Minimal).(Obviously, the entire section Appearance is worth noting here but too big to list in full.)Įxtra, if you like a fancy status bar on top of your screen, check this out: Profiles → Terminal → Unlimited scrollback.Profiles → Text → Use built-in Powerline glyphs.Profiles → Colors → Color Presets… → Import….Appearance → Tabs → Show tab bar even where is only one tab.These are some places that I check when customizing my CLI’s visuals: When it comes to iTerm2, however, it is easy to get lost in its extensive preference window. A developer’s setup is very personal hence I’m not going into details here. I’ve added several plugins, aliases, and other helpers to my stack. One of the best things about OMZ is that you can customize it at will. There are already plenty of official documentation and blog posts with instructions on that very topic. I am not going to tell you how to install these bits of software. Symbol font: iTerm2’s built-in Powerline glyphs.This is the command-line stack I use for development on macOS: env files (hello dotenv plugin! ❤️), extensive customizability, and more. For every developer, there is something: pleasant auto-completion, automatic loading of. Once a tool sort of forced on me at my first job, I have come to love OMZ as an alternative to Bash. ![]() If you are a developer and haven’t heard of Oh My Zsh (from hereon: OMZ) yet, do check it out!
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