Dev Machine

Steps to setup a remote dev environment to code on the go.

Pre-requisites

• A remote server setup like AWS EC2 running on Linux
• For Mac, install brew via /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
• For Mac, instal wget by brew install wget

Basic housekeeping (Linux)

• Login as the root user
• Add a new user with sudo privileges
• Change hostname in remote machine to something easy to remember (e.g. DevMachine)
• Add the new hostname in local machine's /etc/hosts like xx.xxx.xxx.xxx DevMachine

Setup Mosh (used instead of SSH)

• Install Mosh on both client and remote

sudo apt-get install mosh
# brew install mosh

• Update firewall on remote server to accept UDP connection from Mosh (Linux)

sudo ufw allow 60000:61000/udp

• If there is a locale error, use this on remote server (Linux)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y locales
sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
sudo update-locale LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

Setup ZSH shell

• Install ZSH (Linux)

sudo apt-get install zsh
# brew install zsh

• Copy the path to the installation. The path can be found using:

which zsh

• Make ZSH the default shell

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh

Setup Oh-my-ZSH

• Install Oh-my-ZSH

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

• Add a .zshrc file and source it

cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Setup Github

• Setup user config

git config --global user.email "nishantdania@gmail.com"
git config --global user.name "nishantdania"

• Setup SSH keys on Github - Guide

Setup Vim Editor

Screenshot

Setup Fugitive Browse handler to open github files/commits in browser from vim

• Generate access token
• Setup login credentials

echo 'machine api.github.com login <user> password <token>' >> ~/.netrc

Setup solargraph for ruby intellisense

gem install solargraph

Setup Rg for search

• Install Ripgrep (Linux)

sudo apt-get install ripgrep
# brew install ripgrep

Setup fzf for fuzzy find

• Install fzf

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git ~/.fzf
~/.fzf/install

Setup vimrc

• Fetch the latest vimrc from devmachine repo

git clone git@github.com:remote-dev-machine/rdm-setup.git

• Setup symbolic links to the new vimrc and vim plugins

mkdir ~/.vim
ln -s ~/rdm-setup/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
cp ~/rdm-setup/coc-settings.json ~/.vim/coc-settings.json

• Make Vim the default editor (Linux)

sudo update-alternatives --config editor

• Install new plugins >> Open vim using vi. It should start downloading the required packages. If it does not, using :PlugInstall

Setup coc.nvim extensions for intellisense

• Run the following command in vim

:CocInstall coc-json coc-css coc-elixir coc-ember coc-eslint coc-html coc-stylelint coc-solargraph coc-tsserver coc-yaml coc-vimlsp coc-kotlin coc-java coc-xml coc-sql coc-sh coc-graphql

Setup tmux

• Install tmux

sudo apt-get install tmux
# brew install tmux

• Add tmux config symlink

ln -s ~/rdm-setup/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf

• Install tmuxinator

sudo apt-get install -y tmuxinator
# brew install tmuxinator

That's it !