Basic dev enviroment and tooling for designers on OS X

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Basic dev enviroment and tooling for designers on OS X

• OS X Terminal vs iTerm2

  • CLI Crash Course
  • custom prompt, aliases

• Xcode [+CLI tools?]

• Homebrew and Brewfiles

  • do not rm yourself by using trash
  • youtube-dl (to get startd with something fun)
  • The Tree Command (to see how to extend basic cli tools)
  • git [make sure brew version is used – depends on order in $PATH] – Git Documentation (so git can be updated with brew)
  • git prompt, git aliases

• Ruby

  • rbenv + ruby-build or RVM [rbenv can be installed via brew, rvm cannot]
  • Bundler and its Gemfiles
  • Jekyll with Liquid templating on GitHub Pages
  • Sass, SassMeister and SassDoc
  • Ruby on Rails

• Node.js

  • nvm (via brew)
  • npm
  • node-sass
  • Bower
  • Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
  • gulp.js - the streaming build system
  • Surge