As developer, the terminal isn’t something we can neglect. And since most of us use it a lot, we can optimize the terminal to our needs to make it an awesome experience.
On what occasions do I use the terminal?
- to setup a development environment (homebrew, generating SSH keys,…)
- to navigate fast to a project folder with defined aliases
- to download the app resources (localizations.strings)
- to update dependencies via carthage or cocoapods
- to work with Git in general
The setup
Prerequisites
Installation walkthrough
1. Install iTerm
iTerm is a terminal that supports multiple tabs, colors, easy scrolling and much more.
2. Install OhMyZsh
zsh is a replacement for the bash shell that is used by default on mac. Zsh is highly customizale with nice themes and plugins.
note: Since MacOS Catalina, zsh has become the default shell.
3. Update default theme to Agnoster and tweak colors and font
Update the theme in the .zshrc config to Agnoster. Because of doing that, you will also need to download and install one of the patched fonts for Powerline users. You can use my .zshrc as base setup and modify to your needs.
Update the colors and font via iTerm > Preferences > Profiles
- Go to tab
Colorsand change used colors by selectingPastel (Dark background)viaColor Presets - Go to tab
Textand change the font toMenlo Regularwith size 12 and continue by changing the Non-ASCII font toMeslo LG L DZ for Powerline Boldwith size 12
The result
