How I setup a new development Mac in less than an hour

Jonathan Fielding

3 min readMar 14

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Photo by Dmitry Chernyshov on Unsplash

Recently I upgraded to a new MacBook Pro and went through the process of setting up my development environment. As most developers will appreciate, this can be a long experience as you often have to visit the websites for each of your tools, find the correct version and then download this. If, like me, you use a lot of tools; then this can result in this taking a long time.

Jonathan Fielding

Written by Jonathan Fielding

Staff Engineer working for @Spendesk, speaker about web things, writing about tech, contributor to open source. If you like what I write make sure to follow.

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