Laptop is a script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.
It can be run multiple times on the same machine safely. It installs, upgrades, or skips packages based on what is already installed on the machine.
This project is forked & derived from the thoughtbot/laptop project, but customized for my own use.
Read more: How I Automate Setting Up New Macs
Download the script:
curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lachlanjc/laptop/main/mac
Review the script (avoid running scripts you haven’t read!):
less mac
Execute the downloaded script:
sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log
Optionally, review the log:
less ~/laptop.log
Your last Laptop run will be saved to ~/laptop.log
.
First, it shows hidden (dot)files on your Mac.
macOS tools:
- Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.
Unix tools:
- Universal Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
- Git for version control
- OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- RCM for managing company and personal dotfiles
- The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
- Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
- Watchman for watching for filesystem events
- Zsh as your shell
Heroku tools:
- Heroku CLI and Parity for interacting with the Heroku API
GitHub tools:
- GitHub CLI for interacting with the GitHub API
Image tools:
- ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
- Guetzli for optimizing images
Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:
- Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
- Node.js (latest LTS version) & npm, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages, via tj/n
- Ruby (latest stable version) via rbenv
- Yarn for managing JavaScript packages
Databases:
Node.js tools:
- Prettier for formatting
- Vercel for deployment
- npm-check-updates for bulk updating packages
Applications (straight into your Applications folder! No DMGs!):
- 1Password
- AppCleaner
- BBEdit
- Figma
- GitHub Desktop
- Google Chrome
- Hey
- Hyper
- Notion
- Slack
- VSCode (with the VSCode Icons, Prettier, Vim, MDX, & Framer Syntax 2 plugins)
- Zoom
(It’s easy to remove these apps/install different ones by quickly editing the list inside mac
with TextEdit/Vim/etc.)
Other apps I sometimes add:
brew install "chronosync"
brew install "cocktail"
brew install "daisydisk"
It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depends on your machine).
Your ~/.laptop.local
is run at the end of the Laptop script.
Put your customizations there.
Example customization file
#!/bin/sh
brew bundle --file=- <<EOF
brew "Caskroom/cask/dockertoolbox"
brew "go"
brew "ngrok"
brew "watch"
EOF
default_docker_machine() {
docker-machine ls | grep -Fq "default"
}
if ! default_docker_machine; then
docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default
fi
default_docker_machine_running() {
default_docker_machine | grep -Fq "Running"
}
if ! default_docker_machine_running; then
docker-machine start default
fi
fancy_echo "Cleaning up old Homebrew formulae ..."
brew cleanup
brew cask cleanup
if [ -r "$HOME/.rcrc" ]; then
fancy_echo "Updating dotfiles ..."
rcup
fi
Write your customizations such that they can be run safely more than once.
See the mac
script for examples.
Laptop functions such as fancy_echo
and
gem_install_or_update
can be used in your ~/.laptop.local
.
See the original wiki for more customization examples.
Edit the mac
file.
Document in the README.md
file.
Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and Syntastic.
brew install shellcheck
Laptop is © 2011-2020 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.