Pro-tip: If you call a folder "Developer" in your Home directory, it will become a special folder. In list view, it will now show "version" as a column and if you place the "Developer" folder in the sidebar, it will get a hammer icon. Very neat. I like it.
Hello Alex 🖐🏻. I am windows user and today bought my first MacBook . I have struggle to setting it up for Development . Your great video helped me alot! Keep the good work!! I am happy that i found your channel! Greetings, Daniel
THANK YOU!! I just got a new MBP 14 M2 and your NVM management part was really a lifesaver! As i'm working on projects with different versions of node needed, You saved a lot of time!
Was setting up my new MBP watching your old 31 min video and now got the new video, Nice !! Thanks for the amazing videos with so much learning with funny bits too !🙌🏼
Homebrew seems to be quite popular, but I've been using MacPorts for ages so that's what I stick with. I'd love to see a video where you try out both and report your experiences. I'm sure a lot of developers are in a similar boat, using one or the other and curious about how things are on the other side of the fence.
4:50 I'm not a mac user but if I'm not mistaken if you have copied the picture you can just select the icon under properties and press cmd+v to change it
2 more things. 1.Volar (not Vetur) is the current official plugin since Vue 3. 2. Natural Mouse movement all the way (up to go up... down to go down! yeah)
Brilliant tutorial on comprehensive development environment setup using a Mac. I’ve been out of sync on software development tools for a Mac, and learned a lot from this video to get started again. Thank you!
Have you explored having a mac mini desktop AND a macbook for travel purposes? I'm curious about this setup, but worried about proper/seamless syncing between the two?
Almost the same as I did for Windows. homebrew - scoop terminal - cmder (full version includes git/bash/vim) git desktop - sublime merge (light and fast) missing in the video for screenshots - greenshot for video capturing - screen recorder (can save video as animated gif and blur some sensitive data) both used for registering bugs would be nice to hear what to use for screenshots and video capturing on mac
Great video! Just got my first Mac and this video was a great watch. Learned how to fix a few things that were bothering me coming from Windows. Love your work.
Awesome tips. I didn't want to manually install the programs, so I just created a brew "recipe" with all the programs I need that's available in brew, so I don't need to do anything but run a big block of brew install commands at once and wait for them to finish.
The Mac Mini is great for those that do not want to bring a laptop outside the apartment/house. Just get a decent 27-inch 4k LG monitor, Apple keyboard, and a magic mouse. This includes 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. - M2 Mac Mini $1,300 - Apple Keyboard $30 - Apple magic mouse $99 - 27-inch 4k LG monitor $300 Total = $1,729. FYI...The M2 MacBook Air costs $1,600 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage.
I think 256GB is too little. Generally, environments start to grow, more versions, tools, libraries, projects, git version control increases a lot, etc, etc, etc
So after all the installs, how much disk space did you have left? Did you install the VM (or other items) on the external drive? I had a 128Gb HD in a MacBook and after Office and a few productivity apps I barely had room for documents.
Hi Alex. Nice video as always. Saved this video as installation guide to setup macs for software developments. 🙂 ( My development setup is pretty much the same as yours ) 👍
@Alex Ziskind, I am very sorry to inform you that nano has been replaced by pico in macOS. When you type nano in the terminal, macOS brings you pico instead, which works almost the exact same way (I noticed strange stuff with lines of text that are larger than the window) Thanks a lot for your videos BTW !
This was just excellent, Alex. One difference from what I do (have done) is using Homebrew. I use to use it all the time but ran into problems with Apple silicon. Also it seems that many of the casks were not the latest version or didn't download everything that the normal installer did. Has this gotten a lot better? (Also the other thing I have done on my 256GB M1 Mac Mini is set up my home directory on an external SSD drive, but that is a whole other story - still runs pretty zippy).
"Hey everyone, I am recently experiencing a drop in performance on my 2020 M1 Pro since updating to Ventura 13.2.1. I've noticed that the Mac heats up unnecessarily even during simple tasks and charging it makes the entire metal body heat up, which is concerning. I wanted to ask if anyone else has had similar issues with their M1 Pro and if there are any recommended solutions. Thanks in advance for your help!" and Alex if you have that machine lying around then can you plz testify for me drop in battery is also significant
Hey Alex, thanks for this! I got a Mini M2 pro with 32 GB RAM. When I have nothing open but activity monitor it's already using ~8GB. That seems to be the baseline, from there when I open stuff it's nice and stingy with the RAM. If this is the case with the entry level Mini's that might be good info for folks to know. Thanks for what you do!
@@joshuamyers2045 It shouldn’t. MacOS will try and use as much free ram space as possible for stuff like filesystem cache. The system is quick to give up that used memory as soon as someone requests it. Also macos memory compression is an amazing feature. Really cuts down on ram usage. I’ve been running 2012 MBP with 8Gigs, and other than virtual machines sucking up static amounts of ram (thx docker), the experience using it is fine. I do not usually run out of memory… well… until I open AfterEffects and couple dozen of browser tabs, but that’s a story for another day.
That finder route and status thing? Wont believe the number of PC converts that have asked me that. Thanks. It's funny how each Mac finds out how to do things their own way. that is part of the MacOs great user experience. If you don't needed, you won't even know its there.
Thanks for the video, a lot of helpful tips! @AZisk, I know you mentioned before that you use Atem Mini Extreme for recording, but it only supports 1080p and your video looks super crisp! How did you achieve this? Do you just sync/replace your Arem recordings with camera recordings in Davinci Resolve? I record QA test automation trainings for Udemy and thinking about leveraging Atem Mini to simplify editing.
i have a macbook air that i love, but 8 gb is not enough. with vscode, mail, rust plugins for vscode end a few safari tabs, i have just 1gb of ram left and if i need more apps opened often the swap space is over 700mb, and i don't want to wear out the ssd. i'm thinking to buy mac mini m2 but with 16 gb of ram. do you think it is right, or maybe with just 8 gb i can work?
while setting up my django project when i upgraded from linux to mac m1 pro homebrew did something strange, whenever i used mysql installed via homebrew to connect my django to localhost db it was loading very slow but when adding natively mysql ofc removing from homebrew the speed to template opening increased how i came to conclusion that its was not something with my django was simple as i used a hosted db it was running smoothly but local mysql db was slow when with homebrew maybe i might had done something wrong as i was new to mac
@@AZisk Thank you. This is a very necessary and interesting video. Last year I bought myself a mac mini m1 16/256 GB only for mobile and flutter development. After installing xcode, android studio, flutter , chrome and creating several flutter projects - 50 Gb.
Hi Alex and thanls for the video! It seems that your chapters are messed up though so you might want to take a look at them (i.e. if I click the python chapter I get the Android Studio install segment)
I have an M1 macbook air. I need to run assembly language codes in it. I cant seem to find a way to do it. can you please share how I can run assembly codes using vs code as IDE (without installing homebrew or xcode) on my mac?
Yeah I think the M2 Max Mac Studio I got is overkill lol. I wanna get into making videos and photography, but that + the software development I do (no low level, memory intensive stuff) is probably not even a match for the M2 Pro Mac Mini. I think I gotta exchange
If you intall docker and kubernetes in a homeserver do I need also to install conda and docker in my mac? Or how do I connect to those on my other computer server with the VMs ( using an old dual xeon with 64gb mem and 4T as server with proxmox
Hey Alex, I’m a Software Engineering student. My old laptop is dead and I’m in urgent need of a new one but there’s a few things that are making it much harder to make a decision. I watched too many videos at this point and just wanna ask someone a few questions. Is there any way through which I can contact you and ask these few question?
@@mattcargileI haven’t made one yet. usually I migrate from one machine to another using migration assistant. ive seen a bunch of scripts out there, and will keep my eye out for one. it would be a good video i think
@@AZisk absolutely 👍🏻 I’ve been wanting to script my whole config with chezmoi for some time. Just been lazy about it. I’m mostly MS stack on Windows but I’m always curious about the *nix side. I do love my iPad and iPhone.
Is the Mac Mini M2 (base) your development machine, or did you just want to show it is possible te develop on a machine with 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD? Wait, you run a virtual Windows 11 pc on a computer with only 8 GB RAM in total?
Not convinced that 8GB of RAM in the long term will be helpful. You would need to be very disciplined in making sure you don't have too many applications opened at the same time. Docker despite resource controls will still eat up memory, your browser, nodejs, even android studio and big projects 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ ... Are memory hogs. Maybe this set-up is ideal for light weight projects 🤷🏾♂️.... I would love to know everyone's experiences and be wrong 😂 save myself some money lol. Also what happened to virtualbox?
In ashian county's the price of phone and the parts are so higher and most of the parts come from china . So when people buy phones they buy them for 1 time use and uses it for 2 years.
I install python 3.11 with brew but when I open the Python folder in the App folder, I don't see any IDLE or the other icons - just some RTF documents and terminal scripts. When I installed Python earlier from their website package, I saw all the icons but Brew could not see it. So I deleted the Python app (using App Delete) and installed with brew. What step am I missing? The goal is to see the icons In the folder as when I installed the package from the web and also have brew acknowledge that it's there. I think it was a path issue before.
I only used the developer tools of Chrome for years, until 3 years ago when I realized that Firefox's developer tools are more advanced in the CSS area. Firefox gives a lot better feedback and insightful comments on why something doesn't work. Firefox is my CSS debugger.
I'm learning software development and machine learning by myself. I know some of the stuff he talks about, but everything else just goes over my head 🙃 but still, I love his content!
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Pro-tip: If you call a folder "Developer" in your Home directory, it will become a special folder. In list view, it will now show "version" as a column and if you place the "Developer" folder in the sidebar, it will get a hammer icon. Very neat. I like it.
I too, watched the video.
@@Rydn which video!?
@@LewraAzad this video. All he did was literally say the same thing that was said pretty early in the video.
niceee hahah didn't know that, ty
Works in Monterey too
Hello Alex 🖐🏻. I am windows user and today bought my first MacBook . I have struggle to setting it up for Development . Your great video helped me alot! Keep the good work!! I am happy that i found your channel!
Greetings,
Daniel
THANK YOU!! I just got a new MBP 14 M2 and your NVM management part was really a lifesaver! As i'm working on projects with different versions of node needed, You saved a lot of time!
Was setting up my new MBP watching your old 31 min video and now got the new video, Nice !!
Thanks for the amazing videos with so much learning with funny bits too !🙌🏼
Enjoy!
Homebrew seems to be quite popular, but I've been using MacPorts for ages so that's what I stick with. I'd love to see a video where you try out both and report your experiences. I'm sure a lot of developers are in a similar boat, using one or the other and curious about how things are on the other side of the fence.
Home brew doesn’t work with older versions of OS X, so I have to use Mac ports. I don’t love it but it gets the job kind of done.
4:50 I'm not a mac user but if I'm not mistaken if you have copied the picture you can just select the icon under properties and press cmd+v to change it
2 more things. 1.Volar (not Vetur) is the current official plugin since Vue 3. 2. Natural Mouse movement all the way (up to go up... down to go down! yeah)
Brilliant tutorial on comprehensive development environment setup using a Mac. I’ve been out of sync on software development tools for a Mac, and learned a lot from this video to get started again. Thank you!
Have you explored having a mac mini desktop AND a macbook for travel purposes? I'm curious about this setup, but worried about proper/seamless syncing between the two?
Almost the same as I did for Windows.
homebrew - scoop
terminal - cmder (full version includes git/bash/vim)
git desktop - sublime merge (light and fast)
missing in the video
for screenshots - greenshot
for video capturing - screen recorder (can save video as animated gif and blur some sensitive data)
both used for registering bugs
would be nice to hear what to use for screenshots and video capturing on mac
Great video! Just got my first Mac and this video was a great watch. Learned how to fix a few things that were bothering me coming from Windows. Love your work.
Great to hear!
Awesome tips. I didn't want to manually install the programs, so I just created a brew "recipe" with all the programs I need that's available in brew, so I don't need to do anything but run a big block of brew install commands at once and wait for them to finish.
The Mac Mini is great for those that do not want to bring a laptop outside the apartment/house. Just get a decent 27-inch 4k LG monitor, Apple keyboard, and a magic mouse. This includes 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage.
- M2 Mac Mini $1,300
- Apple Keyboard $30
- Apple magic mouse $99
- 27-inch 4k LG monitor $300
Total = $1,729.
FYI...The M2 MacBook Air costs $1,600 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage.
I watched this when it was new. Rewatching it because I now own one 🙂.
All these can be installed on 256gb storage? Amazing!!! You should have shown how much space was left at the end. Great vid
I think 256GB is too little. Generally, environments start to grow, more versions, tools, libraries, projects, git version control increases a lot, etc, etc, etc
Excellent video! I feel compelled to walk through and try your setup.
So after all the installs, how much disk space did you have left? Did you install the VM (or other items) on the external drive? I had a 128Gb HD in a MacBook and after Office and a few productivity apps I barely had room for documents.
Great help setting up an MBP M1 Max, sweet thank you for all the details
Very thorough and detailed. Much thanks!
Very welcome!
one addon if you are doing apple development or ios development then you will also need cocoapods installs to manage your project dependencies.
Hi Alex. Nice video as always. Saved this video as installation guide to setup macs for software developments. 🙂 ( My development setup is pretty much the same as yours ) 👍
@Alex Ziskind, I am very sorry to inform you that nano has been replaced by pico in macOS. When you type nano in the terminal, macOS brings you pico instead, which works almost the exact same way (I noticed strange stuff with lines of text that are larger than the window)
Thanks a lot for your videos BTW !
I'm not sad. Basically the same thing :)
Use vi, its the way
after all this anyidea how much space was left
Do you recommend me buy it? does it run docker, java and others programs that demand a lot resources?
Wow really needed this video, very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Instead of restarting terminal, you can just run exec zsh.
Love this video, thanks!
Great video and walkthrough. But is 8GB going to be enough?
Great video! Thanks! 👍🏼 5:00
It would be cool to see how much storage space is left after setting up this dev environment
prob like 150-160gb left
thank you! im a newbie in mac. useful for me.
Thanks for this video, it’s very useful 😊!
That was very informative. Thank you!
This was just excellent, Alex. One difference from what I do (have done) is using Homebrew. I use to use it all the time but ran into problems with Apple silicon. Also it seems that many of the casks were not the latest version or didn't download everything that the normal installer did. Has this gotten a lot better? (Also the other thing I have done on my 256GB M1 Mac Mini is set up my home directory on an external SSD drive, but that is a whole other story - still runs pretty zippy).
Do you use macports?
"Hey everyone, I am recently experiencing a drop in performance on my 2020 M1 Pro since updating to Ventura 13.2.1. I've noticed that the Mac heats up unnecessarily even during simple tasks and charging it makes the entire metal body heat up, which is concerning. I wanted to ask if anyone else has had similar issues with their M1 Pro and if there are any recommended solutions. Thanks in advance for your help!" and Alex if you have that machine lying around then can you plz testify for me drop in battery is also significant
That natural scrolling thing bother me too. I guess we got accustomed to how it works in windows
awesome video man!
You don't need a local web server? And.. how much space is needed for all this tools?
Don't you recommend typescript?
oh yeah i absolutely do. Thanks for being a member!
make a video on flutter
Hey Alex, thanks for this! I got a Mini M2 pro with 32 GB RAM. When I have nothing open but activity monitor it's already using ~8GB. That seems to be the baseline, from there when I open stuff it's nice and stingy with the RAM. If this is the case with the entry level Mini's that might be good info for folks to know. Thanks for what you do!
Hey Bob, I'm planning on buying the base model of Mac Mini M2 Pro 16GB RAM, do you think it'll use 8GB when idle as well??
@@joshuamyers2045 It shouldn’t. MacOS will try and use as much free ram space as possible for stuff like filesystem cache. The system is quick to give up that used memory as soon as someone requests it.
Also macos memory compression is an amazing feature. Really cuts down on ram usage.
I’ve been running 2012 MBP with 8Gigs, and other than virtual machines sucking up static amounts of ram (thx docker), the experience using it is fine. I do not usually run out of memory… well… until I open AfterEffects and couple dozen of browser tabs, but that’s a story for another day.
@@joshuamyers2045 have u bought mac min ? I am also going to buy mac mini m2 256gb
hey Alex im struggling with the installation of openjdk17
and the java_home stuff so confusing.
Aah you don't have to type cd just drag and drop folder in terminal will automatically launch terminal with that location 😃😃
Time for video if base Mac Mini is sufficient for development purposes.
That finder route and status thing? Wont believe the number of PC converts that have asked me that. Thanks. It's funny how each Mac finds out how to do things their own way. that is part of the MacOs great user experience. If you don't needed, you won't even know its there.
I love the video, Is it a good purchase option for juniors?
Thanks for the video, a lot of helpful tips! @AZisk, I know you mentioned before that you use Atem Mini Extreme for recording, but it only supports 1080p and your video looks super crisp! How did you achieve this? Do you just sync/replace your Arem recordings with camera recordings in Davinci Resolve?
I record QA test automation trainings for Udemy and thinking about leveraging Atem Mini to simplify editing.
Is it worth spending on a mac mini for a computer science student or a software engineering student?
i have a macbook air that i love, but 8 gb is not enough.
with vscode, mail, rust plugins for vscode end a few safari tabs, i have just 1gb of ram left and if i need more apps opened often the swap space is over 700mb, and i don't want to wear out the ssd.
i'm thinking to buy mac mini m2 but with 16 gb of ram.
do you think it is right, or maybe with just 8 gb i can work?
It's like GNU/Linux distro but 2 times more expensive and very restrict to customize.
while setting up my django project when i upgraded from linux to mac m1 pro homebrew did something strange, whenever i used mysql installed via homebrew to connect my django to localhost db it was loading very slow but when adding natively mysql ofc removing from homebrew the speed to template opening increased how i came to conclusion that its was not something with my django was simple as i used a hosted db it was running smoothly but local mysql db was slow when with homebrew maybe i might had done something wrong as i was new to mac
Hello, Alex. Great video. And how much free space is left on the disk after installing these programs?
not much. around 50Gb
@@AZisk Thank you. This is a very necessary and interesting video. Last year I bought myself a mac mini m1 16/256 GB only for mobile and flutter development. After installing xcode, android studio, flutter , chrome and creating several flutter projects - 50 Gb.
How much ram it is consuming if you run xcode, vscode and parallel(windows) simultaneously @@AZisk
First time I hear about raycast.
I've been using alfred.
Are there any points that favor raycast other than alfred?
Hi Alex and thanls for the video! It seems that your chapters are messed up though so you might want to take a look at them (i.e. if I click the python chapter I get the Android Studio install segment)
Thanks. Fixed
I have an M1 macbook air. I need to run assembly language codes in it.
I cant seem to find a way to do it.
can you please share how I can run assembly codes using vs code as IDE (without installing homebrew or xcode) on my mac?
How much available memory remains after completing all of these installations?
Yeah I think the M2 Max Mac Studio I got is overkill lol. I wanna get into making videos and photography, but that + the software development I do (no low level, memory intensive stuff) is probably not even a match for the M2 Pro Mac Mini.
I think I gotta exchange
Nice video ☺️☺️
Thanks 😊
All that fitted in 170gb??
Love it ❤
is 8gb ram enough for basic dev work?
how much space is left after all the installatioins on this 256gb varient???????
50gb
Does the base model is good for mobile dev?
what brand of thunderbolt enclosure is it?
For a macbook what is "Normal" temperature C, when runing Android Studio or another apps?
很棒的视频
Is the M2 Mac Mini (Base model) sufficient for Android Development?
If you intall docker and kubernetes in a homeserver do I need also to install conda and docker in my mac? Or how do I connect to those on my other computer server with the VMs ( using an old dual xeon with 64gb mem and 4T as server with proxmox
Mac mini m2 8 gb ram is good for flutter development?
what monitor you use? I have 1440p and 1080p and the fonts looks like trash on Mac in comparison with windows,
Does Mac mini has a battery? What happens when power cuts? Does it work?
Mac Mini doesn’t have a battery
Do you use pycharm for python?
Raycast ♥
Hi Alex, why it is not possible to use Mac OS App Store inside Parallels?
Haven’t tried it, not sure why
BTW how has this channel affected your developing career? has it at all? for the better or for the worse?
sounds like a video right there :)
@@AZisk ;-)
Why not xcode?
need xcode for sure
@@AZisk tHanks can you make a beginner video with Xcode ? Thanks
"Ask me for a password...aff... Ok fine!" hahahahahahahah
Every day in my Dev day... 256 ssd is not enough... Apple should change this "base model" for minimum 512gb ssd
agreed
alias yarn='npx yarn'
Unnatural scrolling! hahaha
Only Apple's arrogance could come with a "natural" name for what they think is "best".
Great video!!!
Hey Alex,
I’m a Software Engineering student. My old laptop is dead and I’m in urgent need of a new one but there’s a few things that are making it much harder to make a decision.
I watched too many videos at this point and just wanna ask someone a few questions.
Is there any way through which I can contact you and ask these few question?
I know I’m completely off the video’s subject but I’m kinda desperate right now😅
@@antonyelhayek4575 Reddit forums are much better for questions and answers.
XCode?
first thing i do
Should be a script to clean that app bar.
good point. everything is scriptable. however, running a script is only good after you know what you’re doing
with that said, if you have a setup script that does all the things, please share
@@AZisk, unfortunately I don’t have a script. I was hopeful to learn from you! 😄
@@mattcargileI haven’t made one yet. usually I migrate from one machine to another using migration assistant. ive seen a bunch of scripts out there, and will keep my eye out for one. it would be a good video i think
@@AZisk absolutely 👍🏻 I’ve been wanting to script my whole config with chezmoi for some time. Just been lazy about it. I’m mostly MS stack on Windows but I’m always curious about the *nix side. I do love my iPad and iPhone.
24:42
Is the Mac Mini M2 (base) your development machine, or did you just want to show it is possible te develop on a machine with 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD?
Wait, you run a virtual Windows 11 pc on a computer with only 8 GB RAM in total?
Be careful! 8Gb of Ram is not enough, because the system will starts to do swap in the SSD very often and this will kill your mac very fast.
Not convinced that 8GB of RAM in the long term will be helpful. You would need to be very disciplined in making sure you don't have too many applications opened at the same time.
Docker despite resource controls will still eat up memory, your browser, nodejs, even android studio and big projects 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ ... Are memory hogs. Maybe this set-up is ideal for light weight projects 🤷🏾♂️.... I would love to know everyone's experiences and be wrong 😂 save myself some money lol. Also what happened to virtualbox?
In ashian county's the price of phone and the parts are so higher and most of the parts come from china . So when people buy phones they buy them for 1 time use and uses it for 2 years.
❤
as someone who uses a 512 storage, that's a lot for a 256GB storage lol
Seriously, vscode instead of xcode? If you could develop iOS app in vscode, then no one would need that piece of ...
"Will a 2020 Apple M1 Air with 8GB of RAM be sufficient for software?"
You look like Bear Grylls.
It's so stupid that they're gonna remove vs code from mac os
just visual studio, not vs code
8gb, 256gb it a shame in 2023
I'm rly wondering.. who buy this overprices not expandable shit? 😀😁🤣😂
I install python 3.11 with brew but when I open the Python folder in the App folder, I don't see any IDLE or the other icons - just some RTF documents and terminal scripts. When I installed Python earlier from their website package, I saw all the icons but Brew could not see it. So I deleted the Python app (using App Delete) and installed with brew. What step am I missing? The goal is to see the icons In the folder as when I installed the package from the web and also have brew acknowledge that it's there. I think it was a path issue before.
I only used the developer tools of Chrome for years, until 3 years ago when I realized that Firefox's developer tools are more advanced in the CSS area. Firefox gives a lot better feedback and insightful comments on why something doesn't work. Firefox is my CSS debugger.
What is Firefox?
Firefox is awesome.
I'm learning software development and machine learning by myself. I know some of the stuff he talks about, but everything else just goes over my head 🙃 but still, I love his content!