# The Terminal Setup Every Developer Needs (Part II)

This is a cross post and you can find the original article  [here](https://www.techrally.co/blogs/the-happy-path-to-your-terminal-setup-part-ii) !

As part of my upcoming course (Pre-Launch),  [The Ultimate Developer Environment Setup Course](https://bit.ly/3sBEK8W), I would like to continue sharing tools and configurations that I believe would be helpful in becoming a productive Software Developer.

If you missed Part I, you can find it  [here](https://www.techrally.co/blogs/the-happy-path-to-your-terminal-setup-part-i)  

### Oh My Zsh

Now that we’ve installed iTerm and adjusted our configurations, this is the perfect time to introduce Oh My Zsh You’ll notice in the terminal, all the folders and files have white text.  This makes it very difficult to navigate and visually confirm if you should open the file or view a folder.

![Screenshot of iTerm2 (1-1-22, 9-34-33 PM).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1641092841090/5AbcNS9pU.png)

I find this very annoying and would love some visual separation to help me out.  This is where Oh My Zsh comes in!  As described below, Oh My Zsh is a framework for managing your configuration plus comes with bundled plugins and themes.  For the sake of this blog, I want to focus on theme!

![Screenshot of Google Chrome (1-1-22, 9-35-56 PM).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1641092862798/HyXzWItx-.png)

First go to the website  [https://ohmyz.sh](https://ohmyz.sh)  and click the install button.  This will navigate you down to a script you need to copy and paste to your terminal.

![Screenshot of Google Chrome (1-1-22, 9-38-05 PM).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1641092890847/ouFU4iO2O.png)

Take the curl or wget command, paste it onto your terminal, and press enter.

![Screenshot of iTerm2 (1-1-22, 9-39-51 PM).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1641092914151/2bPYTZoJW.png)

After installation go back to the **root** of your terminal.  You can accomplish by typing `cd ~` in your terminal and press enter.

In your **root** create a **.zshrc** file, if it does not exist.  You can accomplish this by typing `touch .zshrc`.

Once this file is created you need to open this file.  Generally if you have an IDE (visual studio code, sublime, atom) you should be able to open it via

```
Visual Studio Code - code .zshrc
Sublime - subl .zshrc 
Atom - atom .zshrc
```

But if you do not have an IDE installed you can still open the file via `open .zshrc`

In your **.zshrc** file you should see an output like the following below

![Screenshot of Code (1-1-22, 9-47-42 PM).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1641092978495/Q21qtfDmO.png)

The main part we want to focus on is the

ZSH_THEME="miloshadzic"

The ZSH_THEME will give you a different look on you terminal to help you navigate easier.  For example the **miloshadzic** theme will give the output below.  As you can see the folders are highlighted in bright blue while files are white.  Now, as a user it’s going to be so much easier to determine what type each file is!

![Screenshot of iTerm2 (1-1-22, 9-49-48 PM).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1641092997446/8tON9yMiz.png)

There are so many variations of themes you can explore and I highly recommend you to go check them out!  You can find all variations of themes  [here](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes) !

Now that you got a fancy setup for your terminal, for part III, we’re going to install **git** and sign up for **github**!  Stay tuned!

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