Developer Environment Setup

🧠 A full developer environment setup inspired by
The Primeagen’s Developer Productivity v2 course on Frontend Masters.

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📘 Overview

This repository contains a collection of environment setup scripts, configuration files, and course reference materials designed to help developers become faster and more efficient in their day-to-day workflows.

It is based on The Primeagen’s course on Frontend Masters, which focuses on practical tools, terminal mastery, automation, and editor customization.

Includes setups for:

• Neovim
• Vim
• Tmux

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⚠️ The course_material/ directory is for educational reference only, derived from The Primeagen’s Developer Productivity v2 course.

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/dev-setup.git
cd dev-setup/dev-env

2. Run setup scripts

2.1 Neovim

Clone, build and install neovim release 0.11.0 by execution of the neovim.sh script:

cd neovim
chmod +x neovim.sh
./neovim.sh

or run it via Ansible playbook

ansible-playbook neovim_ansible.yml

Update neovim setup via shell script to clone neovim kickstart fork that contains custom init.lua file:

cd neovim
chmod +x update_nvim_config_from_kickstart.sh
./update_nvim_config_from_kickstart.sh

2.2 Vim

Execute update_vim_config.sh script to install vim (if not yet installed), copy .vimrc from /dev-env/vim to home and install all plugins.

cd vim
chmod +x update_vim_config.sh
./update_vim_config.sh

The update_vim_config.sh installs the plugins according to the following instructions:

Setup instructions for installation of vim plugins with vundle plugin manager

• ensure with

 vim --version

that 8.2 or newer is installed

• copy dot_vimrc.txt to home and rename it:

 cp -r dot_vimrc.txt ~/.vimrc

• clone vundle plugin manager:

 git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

• open .vimrc with vim and run :source %

• install exuberant ctags for Tagbars:

 sudo apt install exuberant-ctags

• clone ale code analysis tool:

 mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/git-plugins/start
 git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale.git ~/.vim/pack/git-plugins/start/ale

• open vim and run :PluginInstall

• install LSP Server: if venv is not yet installed do

 sudo apt install python3.10-venv

• open a python script in vim and run :LspInstallServer

• install YouComplete (not needed if LSP server is used):

 cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
 python3 install.py

2.2 Tmux

Run tmux install config as shell script to install tmux and create symlink to .tmux.conf:

cd tmux
chmod +x install_tmux_config.sh
./install_tmux_config.sh