A Guide to Overengineering a Windows Terminal

• nerd-fonts

  237 51,216 9.7 CSS

  Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

To install a nerd font, first, go to the nerd-fonts GitHub Repo and download the zip file of your preferred Nerd Font from the latest release. Extract the zip file and install the fonts. If you have never installed a font before, that’s fine, you can just double-click the .ttf files and click on install.

• Scoop

  252 19,855 8.7 PowerShell

  A command-line installer for Windows.

  

Let's first install scoop, a package manager for Windows. We will be then using scoop to install other tools.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• z

  4 393 4.2 PowerShell

  Save time typing out directory paths in PowerShell by jumping around instead. (by badmotorfinger)

z is a directory jumper. What is a directory jumper? Let's say you are in the directory ~/Desktop/Development/NextJS/tutorial, and you want to go to ~/SomewhereElse/Products/Product1/prod-website, the one way of doing this in your terminal would be this:

• oh-my-posh

  114 14,144 9.7 Go

  The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

scoop install https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/latest/download/oh-my-posh.json

• cli

  253 35,338 9.7 Go

  GitHub’s official command line tool

  

gh CLI - gh is GitHub on the command line. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with git and your code.

• gh-dash

  12 4,327 8.1 Go

  A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub 🚀

gh-dash extension - An extension of gh cli to display a dashboard with pull requests and issues.

• dunk

  4 682 0.0 Python

  Prettier git diffs in the terminal 🎨

dunk - You can use this to get prettier git diffs.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• rich-cli

  29 2,938 0.0 Python

  Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal

  

Rich CLI - Rich-cli is a command-line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal.

• themes

  9 1,309 4.0 TypeScript

  Themes for Windows Terminal (by atomcorp)

for themes - https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/ or https://github.com/atomcorp/themes

• Chocolatey

  394 9,866 8.4 C#

  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

There is also choco/chocolatey which you can use as a package manager but we will stick with scoop for this article.

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