5 Tips to Improve Your Terminal Experience

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Vercel

However, my current gold standard for terminals is Hyper. I have been using it for many years and it was built by the folks at Vercel, who you may have heard of.

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2

Starship (Shell Prompt)

Starship is a cross-shell prompt that is blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable. It is built in Rust, which gives it best-in-class speed and safety, to make your prompt as quick and reliable as possible. Out of the box it shows you pertinent information like what git branch you are on, what version of CLI tools you are running (e.g. node, Rust, etc), how long commands took to run, and so much more!

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3

RVM

If you have worked on multiple different projects, throughout your career, odds are you have encountered a need to switch node, ruby, etc. Versions depending on the project. There are several independent tools that exist for managing versions of these tools like nvm and rvm but I have recently been opting more for an all-in-one solution asdf.

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4

iTerm2

The built in terminal on Mac is decent, and has been getting some updates, but it tends to lag behind alternatives in terms of features. Iterm is another popular option, and new players to the space like Warp promise all kinds of new and exciting features.

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Yes, this font costs money, and yes it is worth spending money on. There are a lot of nice free fonts out there, and I personally used Input before, but there is just something special about MonoLisa that cannot be put into words. It just feels clean and extremely legible. Their website says it was designed "to improve developers' productivity and reduce fatigue" and I think they nailed it!

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Hyper

However, my current gold standard for terminals is Hyper. I have been using it for many years and it was built by the folks at Vercel, who you may have heard of.

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fish shell

One of the biggest improvements to my experience in the terminal was from switching from bash to fish. Fish upgrades your terminal with features like autosuggestions, that remember commands you have run before and try to auto complete them for you, and automatically generates auto completes for other utilities by parsing their man pages, neat!

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8

asdf-vm

If you have worked on multiple different projects, throughout your career, odds are you have encountered a need to switch node, ruby, etc. Versions depending on the project. There are several independent tools that exist for managing versions of these tools like nvm and rvm but I have recently been opting more for an all-in-one solution asdf.

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