Fred Siika's Piscine Dotfiles

Dotfiles and iMac configuration

Installation

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want (I like to keep it in ~/Piscine/dotfiles). The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/fredsiika/piscine.git 

# Move into the dotfiles directory
cd piscine/dotfiles 

# To Update, start the bootstrap script
source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

Git-free install

To install these dotfiles without Git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/fredsiika/piscine/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-component 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh,.osx,LICENSE-MIT.txt}

To update later on, just run that command again.

Prevent / Fix NPM (Node Package Manager) Permission Errors

Due to local environment configuration set by 42 Silicon's admins, we do not have 'sudoer' (root) access. Commands like bash chmod +x <file-name>do not work resulting in an EACES error when trying to install a node package globally. Fortunately there's a workaround by changing the directory where npm is installed.

To minimize the chance of permissions errors, you can configure npm to use a different directory. In this example, it will be a hidden directory on your home folder.

Make a directory for global installations:

mkdir ~/.npm-global

Configure npm to use the new directory path:

npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'

Open or create a ~/.profile file and add this line:

export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH

Back on the command line, update your system variables:

On the command line, update your system variables:

source ~/.profile

To test your new configuration, install a package globally without using **sudo**:

npm install -g jshint

Instead of steps 2-4, you can use the corresponding ENV variable (e.g. if you don’t want to modify ~/.profile ):

NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global

Here's the official tutorial from NPM.

Sensible macOS defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible macOS defaults:

./.macos

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Author

Fred Siika
Follow @fredsiika on Twitter

Thanks to the following for inspiration.…

Mathias Bynens
@ptb and his macOS Setup repository
Cătălin Mariș and his dotfiles repository

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