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Anthony Hind
5,715 Pointssetting up a mac developer environment
Do the Treehouse tutorial videos cover setting up a local development environment on a mac I fancy setting up sass, compass mamp but this will be my first Mac so a bit of guidance would be appreciated, also I would be interested to know what setups people have configured...
Cheers
Anthony
7 Answers
Chad Shores
Courses Plus Student 8,868 PointsThere are about as many dev environments are there are developers. Best thing to do is follow the directions on the respective websites of each technology.
Embrace the errors!
Anthony Hind
5,715 PointsCheers chad, I appreciate what your saying there does appear to be loads of different methods
James Barnett
39,199 PointsFor MAMP check out this screencast from CSS Tricks on setting up MAMP
Then use this tutorial to configure your first site on MAMP
For sass and compass I recommend you check out compass.app
Alejandro Ñáñez Ortiz
21,184 PointsYou should try MAMP. It's very straight forward.
kyle rees
1,480 Pointsdevelopment enviroments used to sound flashy to me untill i realised what they were...
Anthony Hind
5,715 PointsCheers Everyone
Just awaiting the delivery of my new Mac now :)
Anthony Hind
5,715 PointsCan't believe how good this retina display is i have been missing out :)