Doing Web dev on Macbook M1 (Apple Silicon)

macbook-M1-dev-notes.md

Start terminal using Rosetta

(Props to @rlundquist3!)

• you'll want to do this before installing homebrew and any other brew packages or other dependencies, including nvm and rbenv
• before doing project setup:
• finder > go > applications
• right-click your terminal and duplicate (maybe give it a better name like "iTerm Rosetta" for clarity)
• right-click > "get info"
• check "open using Rosetta"
• open the Rosetta terminal and proceed with project setup

Chromium (dependency of puppeteer):

when running yarn install you will get an error stating that Chromium cannot be installed, to get around this:

• brew install chromium
• add the following to your .zshrc (or .bash_profile, etc.)

export PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true
 export PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=which chromium

• reload your shell (source ~/.zshrc)

after this, the puppeteer install should succeed

Thanks @rlundquist3