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If you don’t feel like going through this tutorial step by step and just want the code, you can find it at my emacs-light repo. Follow the README there to get started.
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emacs-doom-themes
Discontinued A megapack of themes for GNU Emacs. [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/themes]
You are probably going to get prompted with a yes/no for trusting this theme now and in the future (after all even themes in emacs are just elisp, so don't evaluate any elisp/themes you don't trust! But we trust the doom maintainer, so go ahead and type yes)
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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For this we're going to use a mix of two packages: projectile and counsel-projectile
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Emacs packages are written in elisp and are hosted on various package repositories such as Milky Postmans E-Lisp Package Archive, or, MELPA.
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For this we're going to use a mix of two packages: projectile and counsel-projectile
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Magit is the best git client you can get. All other git clients should aspire to be how great Magit is.
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Let's try an example M-! git clone https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror.git ~/code-mirror(Notice when you type M-! the mini buffer pops up with a shell command prompt? This is great for running quick commands). CodeMirror isn't tiny, this might take a few seconds...
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
How can I search for strings/words in this project? M-x projectile-grep or M-x projectile-ag or M-x projectile-rg (I recommend rg but it's seperate from emacs so you'll need to install it. If you don't want to bother with that, use projectile-grep, but grep is noticeably slow on larger projects).
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Doom emacs and Spacemacs are "emacs distributions": when installed you get an entirely pre-configured emacs with all of the nice bells and whistles already there for you. I personally started with spacemacs and then moved to my own emacs config later. One massive caveat for spacemacs is that it is highly intergrated with the "evil" package, which means it uses vim keybindings. While you can disable "evil-mode", the configuration will be greatly hindered without it.
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Since we're working on a javascript project, we're going to install a package called npm.el which will provide some handy functions for quickly running npm commands.
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A great package for learning emacs is which-key. This package makes a minibuffer popup with a key map based on the last key you just pressed (i.e if there are any). Add (use-package which-key :config (which-key-mode t)) to your config and try pressing C-x to see what options you have from there.
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diff-hl Git diff markers in modified buffers. Nice to see which lines you've added, changed and deleted, visually.
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smart-parens bracket/parens matching is nice
