HOVER Engineering

https://github.com/hoverinc/engineering

Development setup

Copy/paste this into Terminal.app on your Mac

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hoverinc/engineering/master/script/bootstrap | sh

You'll be asked for your:

• Bash / Z shell preference : If you don't know, just press return to use the default.
• GitHub account email address : This is used to create SSH keys for working with GitHub.
• macOS password : This is so that the script can use sudo to install some things.

What it does

• Checks for or creates SSH keys for git/GitHub
• Helps you add an SSH key to your GitHub account
• Uses strap to setup up your Mac for development:

  • Disables Java in Safari (for better security)
  • Enables the macOS screensaver password immediately (for better security)
  • Enables the macOS application firewall (for better security)
  • Adds a Found this computer? message to the login screen (for machine recovery)
  • Enables full-disk encryption and saves the FileVault Recovery Key to the Desktop (for better security)
  • Installs the Xcode Command Line Tools (for compilers and Unix tools)
  • Agree to the Xcode license (for using compilers without prompts)
  • Installs Homebrew (for installing command-line software)
  • Installs Homebrew Bundle (for bundler-like Brewfile support)
  • Installs Homebrew Services (for managing Homebrew-installed services)
  • Installs Homebrew Cask (for installing graphical software)
  • Installs the latest macOS software updates (for better security)
  • Installs dotfiles from a user's https://github.com/username/dotfiles repository and runs script/setup to configure them; also runs script/strap-after-setup after setting up everything else
  • Installs software from a user's Brewfile in their https://github.com/username/homebrew-brewfile repository or .Brewfile in their home directory.

• Installs everything from this repo's Brewfile
• Installs Ruby
• Installs NVM, the latest Node, and the latest NPM
• Installs the particular versions of Postgres and PostGIS that we care about

Contents of the Repo

• Recommended Reading

Other Resources

Hover Employees should take a look at the engineering-internal repo