Elegant Development Experience With Zsh and Hyper Terminal
A great developer experience can be achieved for the above mentioned tasks using a combination of Zsh as well as Hyper. This article will explain how to optimally set things up to achieve just that.
Zsh is a shell that is very similar to bash, but with a few enhancements. With a few configuration tweaks, this shell can be very powerful.
Configuration for zsh is done in a .zshrc file found in your home directory (i.e. ~). Whenever a change is made in .zshrc and you'd like to see the changes applied to an already open terminal window, you need to run the source ~/.zshrc command to propagate the changes to the current terminal session. I've setup 2 aliases to make it easier to edit and update the zsh configuration:
The above aliases can be added to the .zshrc file. With these aliases, the change command will open .zshrc in VS Code and then the update command will apply the new changes an active terminal session. It should noted that you can also simply open a new terminal tab/window to see the newly applied changes.
A lot of people like to use oh-my-zsh with Zsh since it facilitates the setup of themes as well as the addition of functionality through the oh-my-zsh plugin system. I've moved away from using oh-my-zsh as I've found that it comes along with a lot of bloat that I don't use.
