Local Setup for my Mac

Homebrew, SDKMan, and Git have been my absolute favorite moving buddies whenever I needed to hop from different computers, whether it was for the start of an internship or career, or because I had knocked my personal Mac over from a jazzercize session (theoretically for me, my sister actually did that for hers).

Homebrew is a gift for installing stuff on a Mac: Brew Documentation.

SDKMan is a great tool I use to manage Java stuff because it gives me the greatest amount of control over switching versions in the most intuitive way: SDKMan Documentation.

Git is as every developer knows a very popular (the most popular) way to use version control for a project. It is what allows you to time travel with your code, to go back to the past to reference non-buggy code or to create a new timeline by branching off and making the needed changes.

Setting up for local dev can be a real PIA, but these tools make it SOOO much easier! Note that this is a heavily Mac based setup because of the use of Homebrew (we are mostly an Apple family). As I move from computer to computer, I will cherish these favorite moving buddies.

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First thing to do of course is to install Homebrew on the Mac:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

My Brew Installs

For Python

• brew install python

  *Adjust path to use Python 3 instead of Python 2

  • To view where python is installed

    • ls -l /usr/local/bin/python*

  • change default python symlink to the version you want to use

    • ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/<python3 version> /usr/local/bin/python

  • close terminal and check that you now are using Python3 as the default:

    • python -V : should return Python
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• brew install anaconda

  • Anaconda Setup
  • Edit ~/.zshrc
  • Add export PATH="/usr/local/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
  • Restart terminal or use source ~/.zshrc to reload your shell environment
  • Then you will be able to run jupyter notebook or python and you will be using the Anaconda distribution
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For Web Services

• brew install nginx

• brew install mysql

  • To secure db: mysql_secure_installation
  • For basic connect and run mysql.server start
  • Then mysql -uroot
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For Java : handling JDK + JRE

• brew tap adoptopenjdk/openjdk
• brew cask install adoptopenjdk8
• brew install jenv : Manager for diff Java versions
• brew install tomcat: Install Tomcat Server
• brew install maven: Install Maven
• brew cask install dynamodb-local : Use Dynamo locally
• brew cask install gradle
• brew cask install intellij-idea-ce

For Clojure

• Be sure Java is installed first since Clojure has a dependency on the JDK
• brew install leiningen

For NodeJS

• brew install node

Node Version Manager

• Not a package from Homebrew but equally as easy to install
• Similarly to SDKMan NVM allows you to switch between different Node versions
• curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash
• Use curl command from NVM link

For Docker

• brew cask install docker
• Installs Docker Desktop app
• Start Docker app and follow the same routine as if you installed the Mac .dmg from Docker: Reference

My SDKMan Setup

• SDKMan allows you to install Java stuff similarly but also painlessly switch between versions (comes in handy for using current or past JDKs)
• sdk install java 11.0.8.j9-adpt
• sdk install maven 3.6.3
• sdk install gradle 6.6.1
• Easy install of Java and Gradle versions