How I setup my Mac after a clean installation of macOS

Utility Applications

• Bartender – Gives you the ability to hide menu bar icons you don't need or only show them when there is an update. Very neat in combination with iStat Menu.
• iStat Menus – Show system stats in the menu bar. I mostly use it to check CPU usage and network traffic. Also gives you the option of a "fuzzy clock", basically a clock like you would read it e.g. "quarter past one" instead of 01:15pm.
• Magnet – Better window management.

Development Tools

• Oh My Zsh – Even though Catalina now uses zsh as the default shell, some of the plugins I use still require Oh My Zsh so I still run with it. installed via the terminal.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
open .zshrc

• In your .zshrc file you will need to add the following two lines for nvm later (there is also a completed .zshrc file in this repository)

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"
[ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion"

• Spaceship ZSH – A theme for Oh My Zsh

git clone https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt.git "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt"
ln -s "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt/spaceship.zsh-theme" "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship.zsh-theme"

• Again: Go to you .zshrc file and change the theme to ZSH_THEME="spaceship"
• Hyper – My terminal of choice mostly because of themes and plugins available.
• Hyper Night Owl – My favorite theme for Hyper. Just type hyper i hyper-night-owl
• Navigate to your Hyper.js settings and change the font to Victor Mono * open -a TextEdit .hyper.js

  config: {
    // font family with optional fallbacks
    fontFamily: '"Victor Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", Consolas, "Lucida Console", monospace',

    // default font weight: 'normal' or 'bold'
    fontWeight: '700',
   }

• Homebrew – A package manager I mostly use to install Node.js in the way I like and some other miscellaneous packages.
• Node Version Manager – Having multiple node versions at hand can sometimes be necessary. I simply install it via homebrew.

brew install nvm

• Node.js – I mostly go for the latest version of Node.js. Install it via nvm.

nvm install node

• Visual Studio Code – The popular choice for a text editor