Ando

A shell script for a clean and simple front-end web development environment on macOS.

Why Ando?

Tadao Ando is a a Japanese self-taught architect whose style emphasizing nothingness and empty space to represent the beauty of simplicity.

This script was inspired by his philosophy.

Basic Tools

Homebrew: Brews

Git for version control.
Tig is a text interface for Git repositories.
Mas is a Mac App Store command line interface.
wget is an internet file retriever.
Hub adds GitHub support to git on the command-line.
ImageOptim-CLI to make batch optimisation of images part of your automated build process.
Rbenv for managing versions of Ruby.
Yarn for managing JavaScript packages.
ZSH is a UNIX shell (command interpreter).
ZSH Syntax Highlighting Fish shell like syntax highlighting for zsh.
TheFuck helps programatically correct mistyped console commands.
WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress. You can update plugins, configure multisite installations and much more, without using a web browser.

Homebrew: Casks

Affinity Photo Beta is a raster graphics editor.
Affinity Designer Beta is a vector graphics editor.
Firefox for web browsing and testing.
Firefox Developer Edition is my main web browser for development. Best CSS tools built in. Read more here.
Google Chrome for fast and free web browsing.
Hyper for an alternative terminal.
ImageOptim to make batch optimisation of images part of your automated build process.
MAMP for PHP / Wordpress development.
Microsoft Edge Dev for testing.
Spotify for music.
Visual Studio Code IDE.
Zoom for video conferencing.
FONT: Dejavu Sans Mono for command-line font. Has glyph support for git and works well with PowerLevel10K (a ZSH theme).
FONT: Victor Mono for text editor font. Supports ligatures and has a nice cursive italic font, similar to Dank Mono or Fira Code.

App Store Apps

Amphetamine is a powerful keep-awake utility.
Be Focused - Focus Timer is a pomodoro style focus timer for work and study.
Viper FTP Lite is a User-friendly and reliable Mac FTP/FTPS/SFTP/WebDav/AS3 client.

NPM Packages

11ty is a simpler static site generator.
ESLint linting utility for JavaScript.
Gatsby a static site generator built with React.
Gridsome a static site generator built with Vue.
Gulp a task/build runner for development.
ImageOptim-CLI to make batch optimisation of images part of your automated build process.
Netlify lets you deploy sites or configure continuous deployment straight from the command line.
MAMP-CLI a command line interface for working with MAMP. It can start and stop your MAMP, but also easily switch the document root so that you can switch projects easily by using a favorite list.
Pa11y a command-line interface which loads web pages and highlights any accessibility issues it finds. Useful for when you want to run a one-off test against a web page.
VSCE - The Visual Studio Code Extension Manager.
Vue-CLI for quickly scaffolding Single Page Applications.
yo CLI tool for running Yeoman generators.

Additional ZSH Settings (optional)

For full and most current listing, view on Github

Ando is meant to run multiple times on the same machine. It installs, upgrades, or skips depending on what is already installed.

Download:

git clone https://github.com/buildingsareheavy/ando.git && cd ando

Review: (please don't run scripts you don't understand)

less blueprints

Run:

sh goAndo

Or run with log:

sh goAndo 2>&1 | tee ~/ando.log

Check and debug the log:

less ~/ando.log

Code was inspired, copied and modified from Mina Markham's formation.