A Web Developer's Ultimate Guide to the Terminal on macOS

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  • iterm2-snazzy

    Elegant iTerm2 theme with bright colors

  • Snazzy

  • iterm-one-dark-theme

    One Dark theme for iTerm2.

  • Atom One

  • WorkOS

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  • vim-dogrun

    :dog: A dark Neovim / Vim colorscheme for the GUI and 256 / true-color terminals.

  • Exercise: Download dogrun.itermcolors from the dogrun GitHub repository to your Downloads directory using the following command:

  • Hack

    A typeface designed for source code

  • Hack

  • spleen

    Monospaced bitmap fonts

  • Spleen

  • pure

    Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt (by sindresorhus)

  • git clone "$HOME/.zsh/pure" downloads Pure from GitHub. Here we tell git where to download from ("https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure.git") and where to put the downloaded files ("$HOME/.zsh/pure")

  • dotfiles

    🎚 Configuration files for macOS and Linux (by bookercodes)

  • Keep your eyes peeled for other handy aliases you might not have considered. There are always cool ones floating around on GitHub and blogs.

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  • webpack

    A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

  • Use npm to configure and run scripts such as webpack

  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

  • Kitty

  • community

    Repository for public issue-tracking and discussions (by scrimba)

  • open http://scrimba.comopens any website you specify in your default browser

  • iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  • iTerm

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • The default command prompt on macOS happens to be zsh, which we configure with a .zshrc file. There are other command prompts you could install, like bash and fish.

  • solarized

    precision color scheme for multiple applications (terminal, vim, etc.) with both dark/light modes

  • Solarized

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • Many web development-related tasks like installing code packages or uploading code to GitHub can be accomplished using graphical tools like Visual Studio Code nowadays. As a newer web developer, is it worth learning the terminal?

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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