Install Common Developement Tools on Mac

Posted by Miguel Lopez on Wed 04 April 2018 in automation

Technical Stack: macOS High Sierra Read: 5 minutes

Prerequisites

  • Mac Laptop or Desktop (script was build with macOS High Sierra)
  • Knowledge of how to run a bash script

Introduction

I've built a script that uses homebrew to install a common set of development tools on a Mac.

Feel free to download the script from my github gist.

I've done my best to avoid installing any duplicates by checking if you've already installed the application in the /Applications folder of the Mac.

Installation

Once you've download the script, head to your downloads folder on terminal and run...

bash brew-install-mac-dev-environment.sh

Packages Installed

  • Homebrew
  • Slack
  • Docker
  • iTerm2
  • Google Chrome (boooo Safari)
  • IntelliJ Idea (Enterprise)
  • SourceTree
  • Spotify (super important)
  • Terraform
  • git
  • python
  • pip3
  • node
  • coreutils

Feel free to verify any of these packages after installation by checking your /Applications folder or checking for the instance in terminal.

For example:

git --version
python --version
pip3 --version
node --version

If you don't need to extend the script, stop reading here

Packages it installs

Extending the script is easy.

If you wish to add other homebrew formulas, just add them at the end of the script. 

## Install other miscellaneous tools
brew install git
brew install python
brew install node
brew install coreutils
brew install <your formula here>
.
.

If you wish to add another application, you'll need to use brew cask install and edit the script in two places.

1) Add to the application name to the application array list. (We'll add Skype as an example)

## Applications we will install with `brew cask install`
## additional applications can be added here if you wish to install them
declare -a applications=( "Skype" Spotify Sourcetree Slack Docker iTerm "IntelliJ Idea" "Google Chrome" )

Skype is capitalized because it would be saved to your /Applciations folder as Skype.app (the script will use this to make sure the application isn't already installed).

Next, search for the application cask-name on the cask room search.

2) Add to the switch case statement and call brew_install with the cask-name pulled from the search

 case $1 in
      Slack) brew_install slack;;
      Docker) brew_install docker;;
      iTerm) brew_install iterm2;;
      Google\ Chrome) brew_install google-chrome;;
      IntelliJ\ Idea) brew_install intellij-idea;;
      Sourcetree) brew_install sourcetree;;
      Spotify) brew_install spotify;;
      Skype) brew_install skype;;
      *) echo "Add $1 to check_before_install() to install additional applications." ;;
    esac

Again, keep the switch case key captilaized because it reflects the application name under the /Application folder. Next, we will pass the cask-name to the `brew_install function inside the shell script.

Conclusion

Hope this helps, happy coding!

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