#ITERM2 THEMES ZSH FULL#
As a full stack web developer two of the plugins I use on a regular basis are nvm and npm, we add them as below separating with a space as follows: plugins=(git npm nvm) zshrc config file and search for `plugins=` where by default the value will be set to (git). To enable any of the built in plugins we simply need to edit the. Out of the box, Oh My Zsh comes with a wide variety of plugins that you can enable, a full list of which can be found at. The next step is to start customising our terminal with extra functionality through plugins. Screenshot of customised theme setup by author Adding additional functionality with Plugins With Oh My Zsh installed you will see your terminal will now have been setup and will have a default theme and some base plugins setup.
#ITERM2 THEMES ZSH INSTALL#
Similarly to how we installed homebrew, we can use a curl command to install Oh My Zsh. Oh My Zsh is a framework for managing your Zsh configurations, it comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes and will help you to customise your terminal. Installing Oh My ZshĪs Zsh is the default shell used on macOs, the next step is to install Oh My Zsh. Once installed we can close the built in terminal app we have used so far and open iTerm2 😀. This is done as follows: brew install -cask iterm2 To install iTerm2 we can use homebrew’s -cask flag which enables us to install GUI applications. While the built in Terminal application has been improved over the years with better support for things like tabs, I prefer to use iTerm2 which offers many more power features.
bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL )" Installing iTerm2 To install homebrew we can run the following command in our terminal, this uses curl to fetch a install script and executes it. Homebrew calls itself “The missing package manager for macOS” and is an easy to use tool for installing all sorts of applications (both CLI and GUI) on your Mac. The first thing I always do when I setup a Mac is open the default Terminal app and install homebrew. Today I thought I would share how you can start to customise your own CLI to make it work better for you. Screenshot of authors CLI running OhMyZsh in iTerm2Īs a developer who works extensively on a Mac I have spent many years tweaking and optimising how I configure my CLI to improve my experience.
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