Setting up a new developer machine can be an ad-hoc, manual, and time-consuming process. bootstrap aims to simplify the process through a highly automatic and autonomous process.

bootstrap is geared to be an organized reference of various developer tools used by me.

An opinionated list of tools, languages, shells and .dotfiles I use to configure my workstation. This purpose of this repository is to host a tool to bootstrap my machine from scratch. It ensures my machine is ready for backend and frontend development on kubernetes based production environments.

I've been using a form of this script for over 10 years now. This is truly more about the journey than the destination!

To run the script just hit: curl -L https://git.io/JykhP | sh

Before you get started make sure you give full disk access permission to your terminal (for writing macos .dotfiles). System Preferences -> Privacy -> Full Disk Access.

This will execute run.sh which will fetch this repo and then execute the bootstrap.sh script. From there on all sections of this script will be executed.

This script is intended for arm64 based MacOS running computers.

The script is structured by means modules (directories) bundled together in functionality which is then executed by a function call from within bootstrap.sh. The three main buckets are:

• Updates the OS (optional)
• Installs OS level dependencies like xcode-cli
• Applies OS level configurations (look and feel)

• Installs Brew
• Installs Casks and Bottles
• Configures the tools installed by Brew

• Defines zsh as the default shell
• Configures the shell through dotfiles
• Define aliases and exports
• Configures shell tools through dotfiles

Further improvements I'm planning to implement:

• Collaboration
• Customization