Installing Gulp on macOS Mojave, macOS Sierra and earlier OS versions requires Nodejs and npm (Node Package Manager), so get that installed first following the linked guide. Gulp is an easier and slightly more modern javascript task runner than its sibling Grunt, which helps you automate numerous tasks in your workflow. You need to install Gulp …
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Install Docker on macOS – An Up and running guide
You can get up and running with Docker for macOS 10.10.2 Yosemite to 10.12.x Sierra by installing the Community Edition Docker for Mac free client (aka Docker CE for Mac). Docker is gaining more popularity as a development environment, it runs applications in containers ontop of the existing operating system’s hardware which makes it more …
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Setting up a Local Development WordPress Environment on Mac OSX
Setting up a new local WordPress development environment on Mac OSX can utilize a number of different solutions with varying levels of complexity you can roll your own solution using some of OSX in built Apache and PHP, or Homebrew. Then there are pre-built AMP(Apache, MySQL & PHP) stacks; free ones XAMPP, Bitnami, MAMP and then …
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Sync’ing a GitHub Fork via the Command Line
This tutorial looks at keeping a GitHub fork syn’ced and updated with the original repo, it involves forking a repo from someone else’s account to your GitHub account, making a local copy of your fork via the command line, and then fetching any changes of the original repo and then pushing those changes back to …
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Installing Bower On OSX 10.11 El Capitan
Bower is a type of package manager for web development projects. To install Bower on OSX you first need to have node.js and npm installed. Launch the Terminal and run sudo npm install -g bower It will install and leave you with the version number and where it is located. [email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower Once installed you can …
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