What does your dev environment look like? about ama

[gaearon]

Hardware

I used to have 17'' MBP, later switched to 15''' MBP retina. Now I use the New Macbook. It's kinda slower but I have mild back pains and the New Macbook is a bliss because it's just so light and yet has Retina screen. I can't work with non-Retina screens anymore.

Editor

I use Sublime Text 3 with Spacegray UI theme which my friend Gadzhi created. (Redux is finally catching up in popularity to it!)

Instead of the syntax themes that go with it, I use Oceanic Next which is perfect for Babel JavaScript language definition.

Terminal

Nothing fancy. I'm bad at terminaling and I don't know how to write bash scripts or even use basic utils like xargs. Therefore I use Terminal that ships with OS X and fish shell because it autocompletes on tab and has a nice coloring. Of course for this reason copy-pasting bash commands doesn't work and I have to replace && with ; and all the time.

Font

Microsoft Consolas has always been my favorite. I come from .NET development background so there's that.

I prefer large font size everywhere even though I have perfect (?) vision. Small font just irritates me. I also like how large font forces me to only consider the closest context so I have to write smaller functions.

Tools

Very boring and standard.

For webdev:

• Chrome
• React
• Babel
• n to switch Node versions
• ESLint (see Lint Like It's 2015)
• Twitter (seriously, I spend 20% of dev time there)

For life:

• Slack, in particular Reactiflux to chat about my projects
• Gifgrabber, Recordit or Cloudapp for taking gifs (whatever works best for a particular gif)

[prakhar1989]

I also like how large font forces me to only consider the closest context so I have to write smaller functions.

Neat hack!

[gaearon]

I use Atom at work to help dogfood Nuclide at Facebook. I still prefer Sublime because I’m more efficient in it but it’s a matter of habit and I hope to switch within a year.

I did, however, start using Operator Mono instead of Consolas:

Warning: it’s somewhat expensive. I got it as a generous gift.

[bookercodes]

Awesome answer. I was using Spacegrey already but now I'm using Oceanic Next as well - it looks great:

[gaearon]

Oh, and I also have

    "line_padding_bottom": 1,
    "line_padding_top": 1,

in Sublime settings.

[vdemin]

Are you using a Git GUI, or doing everything in the command line?

[gaearon]

Are you using a Git GUI, or doing everything in the command line?

Command line, as I screwed up a couple of times using different clients. I also often use commands like reset --hard, --amend etc, and it's usually easier to do via command line.

[djyde]

A few months passed, did you change your dev environment? It seem you had changed your editor from ST to Atom. What made you change?

[O4epegb]

I have perfect (?) vision.

What is your secret? How is this possible to have good vision while programming so much and generally spend time beside computer?

[rafayepes]

Which syntax theme do you use with Atom? I like Oceanic Next but didn't find anything similar for Atom (there is actually an Oceanic theme for Atom, but to me doesn't look like Oceanic Next for Sublime).

[fa7ad]

Try zsh with oh-my-zsh or prezto for your terminal shell (and yes, it autocompletes 😄 ). I switched from bash a year ago, now can't live without it :D

[gaearon]

What is your secret? How is this possible to have good vision while programming so much and generally spend time beside compu

Haha too late. My right eye is -0.5 now so things in distance get a little blurry.

[kasperpeulen]

Try zsh with oh-my-zsh or prezto for your terminal shell (and yes, it autocompletes 😄 ). I switched from bash a year ago, now can't live without it :D

Not wanting to start a fanboy war here :P But fish autocomplets is a lot better than oh-my-zsh. It also autocompletes by using your command history.

[fa7ad]

@kasperpeulen maybe, but isn't fish incompatible with most other shells?

[kasperpeulen]

@fa7ad Yes, that is a pain. I actually don't use fish anymore, because of that. But I do think fish shines as it comes to autocompletion.

[Whoaa512]

@kasperpeulen, You can achieve something close to the autocomplete command history stuff with a few lines in your ~/.inputrc.

https://coderwall.com/p/oqtj8w/the-single-most-useful-thing-in-bash

[CassianoSF]

How you change de params/args font? You have them italic like.
I got the spacegray + oceanic next + JavaScript(Babel) syntax