Setup a Mac Dev Machine From Scratch

Series Episodes

1. Episodes (12)
   1. iTerm and Oh-My-Zsh

      3m 37s

      Though Terminal comes out of the box, I prefer to use iTerm and Oh-My-Zsh. Even for the command-line, visuals matter!
   2. A Prettier Sublime Text

      2m 23s

      To dig more heavily into Sublime Text configuration, check out the dedicated series here at Laracasts.
   3. A Prettier PHPStorm

      3m 36s

      It may sound foolish, but it's true that I do use two editors in my day-to-day workflow. I find that PHPStorm particularly provides some useful refactoring and analysis capabilities, as opposed to a tool like Sublime Text. In this episode, we'll install it and begin configuring and improving the visuals.
   4. Node, NPM, and Yarn

      1m 48s

      Fortunately, Node is one of the more simple tools in our ecosystem to install. Just a few clicks will set us up. We'll also take a few moments to pull in Yarn, which provides some significant performance and security improvements over NPM.
   5. PHP 7 and MariaDB in Eighty Seconds

      1m 20s

      Though every new Mac comes with PHP pre-installed, it's almost always out of date. My new machine ships with PHP 5.6! We're at 7.1 now, so let's install Homebrew to pull in the latest version, as well as MariaDB (a replacement for MySQL).
   6. Composer

      2m 20s

      Every respectable PHP developer must have Composer installed. It's the defacto dependency manager for the language, and is leveraged by nearly all modern frameworks and libraries.
   7. PHPUnit Setup and Sublime Text Workflow

      4m 54s

      In this episode, we'll install PHPUnit globally, and figure out a clean workflow for triggering it in Sublime Text. Though a number of packages are available, I happen to prefer the simple Sublime-PHPUnit option, which can be installed through GitHub.
   8. Map Caps Lock to Anything

      2m 16s

      I'm fairly certain that I'm the only one who does this, but hear me out: I remap Caps Lock to Shift. Yes, not Control or Escape; I said Shift. In this episode, I'll explain why, while demonstrating how to go about performing such a remapping (with Karabiner Elements).
   9. Simple Git Aliases

      3m 01s

      Though Git allows you to define any number of aliases, they're still too long to write in this author's opinion. Instead, let's create a dedicated file on our machine for aliases, and build up a handful of Git-specific ones.
   10. Setup Laravel Valet

       3m 22s

       In the past, I've reached for VirtualBox and Vagrant to setup my development environment. However, these days, for most projects in our space, Laravel Valet is a far more simple and light-weight alternative. I love every spec of it, and you will too!
   11. Sequel Pro

       45s

       There are a number of MySQL GUIs for the Mac, but I've only ever used Sequel Pro. When you're that satisfied with a tool or product, why bother looking for something else? It won't be as good.
   12. SSH Keys and GitHub

       2m 10s

       SSH keys provide a secure way to connect and login to a remote machine or server. Let's generate a default key, and then hook it up to GitHub, so that I can easily pull and push to my repositories.