TL;DR

As software engineers, we should understand what a terminal is. A terminal is a text-based interface for running commands. It is very powerful and can help you do almost anything just by typing a command.

However, the terminal is not always easy to use because there are so many commands and options to learn and remember, and it is completely text-based T.T

Even though the terminal is very powerful, many CLI-based apps are still not very popular. People often prefer to install desktop apps to do things like work with Git, Docker, Postman, etc. But what if you could do all of that using only the terminal?

In this article, I’ll share my terminal development setup for Terminal , IDE , Git , Docker , and Postman etc.

Terminal

For terminal i use wezterm , it is a very lightweight and fast terminal emulator with GPU acceleration and it has a lot of features like split panes, copy and paste, and more. i combine this with tmux to create a terminal that is very customizable and fast.

here my wezterm.lua config :

local wezterm = require("wezterm")

local config = wezterm.config_builder()

config.colors = {
	foreground = "#c5c9c7",
	background = "#14171d",
	cursor_bg = "#c5c9c7",
	cursor_border = "#c5c9c7",
	cursor_fg = "#14171d",
	selection_bg = "#393B44",
	selection_fg = "#c5c9c7",
	ansi = { "#14171d", "#c4746e", "#8a9a7b", "#c4b28a", "#8ba4b0", "#a292a3", "#8ea4a2", "#a4a7a4" },
	brights = { "#5C6066", "#e46876", "#87a987", "#e6c384", "#7fb4ca", "#938aa9", "#7aa89f", "#c5c9c7" },
}

config.font_size = 19

config.enable_tab_bar = false

config.window_decorations = "RESIZE"
config.window_background_opacity = 0.92

config.enable_kitty_graphics = true
config.macos_window_background_blur = 1001
config.max_fps = 120

return config

as you can see i disable the default tab bar for my wezterm and it will replace with a custom tab using tmux.

config.enable_tab_bar = false

and this is my tmux.conf config :

# Use CTRL-a instead of CTRL-b for leader.
unbind C-b
set-option -g prefix C-a
bind-key C-a send-prefix

## Key bindings

# Reload settings
bind R source-file $HOME/.config/tmux/tmux.conf ; display "Reloaded!"

# Open current directory
bind o run-shell "open #{pane_current_path}"
bind -r e kill-pane -a

# Split panes
bind s split-window -v -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind v split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}"

# Smart pane switching with awareness of vim splits
bind h select-pane -L
bind j select-pane -D
bind k select-pane -U
bind l select-pane -R

# Resize panes
bind -r -T prefix , resize-pane -L 20
bind -r -T prefix . resize-pane -R 20
bind -r -T prefix - resize-pane -D 7
bind -r -T prefix = resize-pane -U 7

# Maximize pane
bind z resize-pane -Z

# Moving window
bind H previous-window
bind L next-window

# Toggle synchronization of keystrokes to all panes in the window
bind * setw synchronize-panes

# Other keybindings
bind P set pane-border-status
bind c kill-pane
bind x swap-pane -D
bind S choose-session
bind K send-keys "clear"; send-keys "Enter"
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi v send-keys -X begin-selection

# Close current window
bind q kill-window

# Rename session last open session
bind-key r command-prompt -I "#W" "rename-window '%%'"

# Resize with specific percentages
bind y resize-pane -x "33%"
bind u resize-pane -x "66%"
bind f resize-pane -y "100%"
bind g resize-pane -y "22%"
bind t resize-pane -y "80%"

# Easier pane selections
bind -n C-l select-pane -L
bind -n C-; select-pane -R
bind -n C-j select-pane -U
bind -n C-k select-pane -D

# Move window (tab) position with arrow keys
bind-key Left swap-window -t -1; select-window -t -1
bind-key Right swap-window -t +1; select-window -t +1

# No delay for escape key press while in nvim
set -s escape-time 0

# Enable mouse control (clickable windows, panes, resizable panes).
set -g mouse on

# Allows auto-reading in nvim
set-option -g focus-events on

# Don't rename windows automatically. Use my beautiful names!
set-option -g allow-rename off

# Don't do anything when a 'bell' rings
set -g visual-activity off
set -g visual-bell off
set -g visual-silence off
setw -g monitor-activity off
set -g bell-action none

# Clock mode
setw -g clock-mode-colour colour1

# Copy mode
setw -g mode-style 'fg=colour234 bg=colour240'

# Pane borders
set -g pane-border-style 'fg=colour236'
set -g pane-active-border-style 'fg=colour248'

# Statusbar
set -g status-position top
set -g status-justify left 
set -g status-style 'fg=colour255'
set -g status-left ''
set -g status-right '#{?window_zoomed_flag,🔍,}'
set -g status-right-length 50
set -g status-left-length 10

setw -g window-status-current-style 'fg=colour253 bg=colour236 bold'
setw -g window-status-current-format ' #W '
setw -g window-status-style 'fg=colour255 dim'
setw -g window-status-format ' #W #[fg=colour0] '
setw -g window-status-bell-style 'fg=colour1 bg=colour1 bold'

# Messages
set -g message-style 'fg=colour255 bg=colour0 bold'

# Correcting colors for tmux + macOS + Alacritty
set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"
# set -as terminal-features ",xterm-256color:RGB"
set -ga terminal-overrides ",-256color:Tc"

# Auto-rename window to PWD
set-option -g status-interval 5
set-option -g automatic-rename on
set-option -g automatic-rename-format '#{b:pane_current_path}'

# Set vi key bindings for copy mode
set-window-option -g mode-keys vi
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi v send -X begin-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi V send -X select-line
set -s copy-command 'pbcopy'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send -X copy-pipe-no-clear 'pbcopy'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'pbcopy'
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'pbcopy'

bind-key -T copy-mode-vi h send-keys -X cursor-left
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi j send-keys -X cursor-down
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi k send-keys -X cursor-up
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi l send-keys -X cursor-right

# window
set -g base-index 1 # start indexing windows at 1 
set -g pane-base-index 1
set -g renumber-windows on # renumber all windows when a window is closed
set -g detach-on-destroy off # don't exit from tmux when closing a session
set-option -s set-clipboard on # Enable system clipboard integration
set-option -g history-limit 200000 # Increase scrollback buffer size

# Title Bar
set -g set-titles on
set -g set-titles-string "#T"

Neovim

I use AstoNvim for my default ide its very lightwight and fast. i try to other nvim such as LazyVim and NvChad but i prefer using AstroNvim because is easy to setup and have a lot of plugins on astrocommunity.

For my astronvim i use default config and i only add some plugins for support my workflows such as lsp and ai autocomplete.

for lsp i use default lsp config from astronvim and i only add some config for autoformatter and linter like this on astrolsp.lua :

------some boring config------
    formatting = {
      format_on_save = {
        enabled = true,
        allow_filetypes = {
          "typescript",
          "typescriptreact",
          "css",
          "svelte",
          "graphql",
          "html",
          "vue",
          "astro",
          "markdown",
          "markdown_inline",
          "mdx",
          "json",
          "yaml",
          "yml",
          "toml",
          "prisma",
          "sql",
          "lua",
        },
        ignore_filetypes = {
          -- "python",
        },
      },
    }
------ some boring config------

And for Autocomplete i prefer using Supermaven this plugin is very powerful and pretty fast for autocomplete. i only use free version of this plugins and i never reach the limit of free version so it is very good for me because i should not pay for this plugins , but maybe in the future i will use paid version of this plugins (hehe) . btw here my config for supermaven.lua :

return {
  "supermaven-inc/supermaven-nvim",
  event = "InsertEnter",
  cmd = { "SupermavenUseFree", "SupermavenUsePro" },
  opts = {
    keymaps = {
      accept_suggestion = nil,
    },
  },
  specs = {
    {
      "AstroNvim/astrocore",
      opts = {
        options = {
          g = {
            ai_accept = function()
              local suggestion = require "supermaven-nvim.completion_preview"
              if suggestion.has_suggestion() then
                vim.schedule(function() suggestion.on_accept_suggestion() end)
                return true
              end
            end,
          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
}

all my plugin on astronvim i install using lazy for package manager or you can also install via astrocommunity plugins by visiting astrocommunity and you can install it like this on astrocommunity.lua file :

---@type LazySpec
return {
  "AstroNvim/astrocommunity",
  { import = "astrocommunity.pack.lua" },
  --- plugins goes here ---
}