MacOS Big Sur - Apple M1 - Development Setup

Dear reader, this is just a bunch of notes to configure my dev machinem, it’s an snapshot to configure my new macbook pro m1. enjoy!

Software:

• Homebrew
• Git
• SSH
• GPG
  • Tools
  • Key management
• VSCode (nothing to say here, just install)
• Nodejs
  • NVM

Homebrew

Brew has support now for M1 chip, although, it introduce some changes on its structure.

HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew

Over that new path Homebrew will install all apple silicon compatible packages, saying that, it is needed to add the following line to your .zshrc

export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH

Git

brew install git

Use your own version rather than the one that comes with xcode tools, it’s always outdated and releases are less frequet.