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JavaScript Why Use Babel?

Nick Field
Nick Field
17,091 Points
Posted by Nick Field
Nick Field
17,091 Points

Customised Terminal?

Any idea how Isaac has customised Terminal to add custom colour to text/other visual helpers?

I use the command line more and more every day, so these customisations are welcomed!

3 Answers

Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Nick Field

You can customize the appearance of the Mac Terminal by following these steps:

  • Open the Terminal.app
  • Select "Terminal" Menu then "Preferences..."
  • Select the "Settings" Tab
  • Click and highlight a theme listed under Profiles.
  • Press the "Default" button near the bottom of the window.
  • Open a new Terminal window, it should now have the theme that you selected as the new default.

You can find other colors themes at this OSX Terminal Themes repo on GitHub.

You might also take a look at iTerm2: https://www.iterm2.com/ It's a free replacement for Mac Terminal with lots of great features. That's the terminal app I used on my Mac.

Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points

DAVE!!! You are awesome. Without your beginner js courses I would not have the jr. dev position I have now. Don't know how the videos are scripted but your JavaScript courses are the best I have seen on the interwebs.

Keep up the good work!

Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Thanks Michael Fish! It's great to hear success stories like yours.

Nick Field
Nick Field
17,091 Points
Nick Field
Nick Field
17,091 Points

Thank you Dave for sharing! I'm loving the configurability of iTerm2, it even allows custom trackpad gestures - awesome :) And congrats Michael! Seconded for a workshop on ASI as articles online are a bit difficult to decipher,,,

Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points

I love me some bash terminal...I wish I could work with OS X and other cool tech like Ruby or Node but where I live everything is .NET or PHP. On windows I use git bash. I'll have to check out iTerm it looks pretty sweet

Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points

Sure! One more thing. I would love to see a workshop on ASI(Automatic Semicolon Insertion) in JavaScript.

In my opinion teaching aspiring developers about how ASI works could be very beneficial. It probably doesn't have enough depth for an entire course but a quick workshop on the subject would be amazing.

Have a great day guys and happy hacking!