thoughtbot/laptop
Laptop
Laptop is a macOS development environment bootstrapper and system configuration script. It functions as a development toolchain automator designed to install and configure the programming languages, databases, and utilities required for web and mobile development.
The project automates workstation provisioning by deploying a curated suite of software dependencies through a sequential shell execution process. It integrates package management and version-manager orchestration to handle multiple programming language runtimes and library dependencies.
The system supports environment customization through local configuration injection and post-installation script hooks, allowing for user-specific settings and extensions after the primary setup completes.
Features
- Automated Installation Scripts - Automates the end-to-end installation and configuration of languages, databases, and utilities for development.
- Toolchain Managers - Automates the provisioning and version management of a curated development toolchain through a single process.
- Runtime Version Managers - Configures runtime version managers to handle multiple programming language versions on a single machine.
- macOS Development Environments - Provides a holistic setup for macOS development environments, including essential languages, databases, and utilities.
- System Configuration Scripts - Automates a sequence of commands to prepare a macOS machine with version managers and system package installers.
- System Package Manager Installations - Uses Homebrew to automate the installation and updating of command-line tools and applications on macOS.
- Version Managers - Integrates version managers to ensure the correct language runtimes and library dependencies are installed.
- Automated Software Provisioning - Standardizes the installation of development tools and system settings across multiple machines via repeatable workflows.
- Cross-Platform Toolchain Setups - Configures the specific toolchains and runtimes required for building both web and mobile applications.
- Development Tooling Lists - Provides a curated list of software dependencies to ensure environment consistency across developer workstations.
- Installation Configuration - Allows execution of local configuration files at the end of setup to apply personal tool requirements.
- Post-Installation Extensions - Provides the ability to execute local customization scripts after the primary installation process completes.
- Post-Processing Hooks - Triggers custom scripts after the primary setup to allow for user-specific environment extensions.
- Sequential Task Execution - Executes a sequence of shell commands in a strict linear order to automate system configuration.
- Environment Customizations - Supports loading local configuration files to apply user-specific preferences without modifying the core setup script.
- Development Toolchains - Shell script for setting up development environments.
- System Setup Automation - Opinionated scripts to set up a development machine.
- System Setup Scripts - Opinionated script for setting up a development machine.
