Setting up a new Mac for development is always a pain. I wanted a way to run one script and have everything I need for JavaScript/TypeScript dev—without spending hours configuring stuff manually.
So, Quick Forge was born.
Still a work in progress, but it already does a bunch of useful things:
What it does
- Installs Homebrew, the macOS package manager.
- Installs Git and sets up an SSH key for GitHub.
- Installs Visual Studio Code (VSCode), Cursor, or Zed.
- Installs Node.js (via Fnm)
- Installs Bun (via Bum)
- Installs pnpm (via Corepack)
- Installs Warp, the AI Terminal.
- Lets you choose between installing Zen Browser, Chrome or Arc Browser.
How to use it
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tsotimus/quick-forge/main/install.sh | bash
And then run:
quickforge
