Nathan Gilbert

Subjective Dev Life Hacks

Aliases

Aliases are available in most modern shells. They save time by reducing the amount of characters
needed to invoke common commands.

alias ga='git add . and git add -u .'
alias gb='git branch'
alias gs='git status'
alias gt='cd (git rev-parse --show-cdup)'
alias gbd='git branch --delete'
alias gca='git commit --amend'
alias glg="git log --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"
alias gpr='git pull --rebase'
alias nus='nvm use stable'
alias gcam='git commit -a -m'
alias gcan='git commit --amend --no-edit'
alias gcma='git checkout main'

Git Decorations in Your Shell

You spend a lot of time in your shell, make it nice to look at and work for you.

• Bash
  • Bash Git Prompt
• Zsh
  • Oh My Zsh
  • Oh Flowers Zsh Theme
  • Awesome Zsh Plugins
• Fish
  • Awesome Fish
  • Fisher

Command History and Searching

• Bash
  • 6 Methods of Executing Historical Commands in Bash
• Zsh
  • Zsh Completions
  • fzf for Zsh
• Fish
  • History is built-in!
  • fzf for Fish

Directory Jumping

Life's too short to type long directory names.

• Bash
  • Z for Bash
• Zsh
  • Zsh-z
• Fish
  • z for Fish

IDE Plugins

You probably spend even more time in your IDE, so spruce it up a bit.

• Shortcuts: The Guide to VSCode Shortcuts
• ESLint: VSCode ESLint
• Code Spell Checker: Spell Checker Plugin
• Rainbow Brackets: Rainbow Brackets Plugin
• Jest: Jest Plugin
• Prettier: Prettier VSCode Plugin, run it on save!
• Vim: 😁 😈