📝 Add macOS-specific instructions for local development. (#996)

* 📝 Add macOS-specific instructions for local development.

* 📝 Remove extra 'git' package installation instruction

diff --git a/docs/src/contributing_local_development.md b/docs/src/contributing_local_development.md
index 066386f50747eac553368c0ec998e7e7ca77a98f..9bdeff9ada7f0a73134f2fc36b725b3b1eef53d1 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/src/contributing_local_development.md
+++ b/docs/src/contributing_local_development.md
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
-### Ubuntu
-
-
-#### Build requirements:
+### Install build requirements
+#### Ubuntu
 ```
-sudo apt install git cargo libssl-dev pkg-config libpq-dev yarn curl gnupg2 git
+sudo apt install git cargo libssl-dev pkg-config libpq-dev yarn curl gnupg2
 # install yarn
 curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
 echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
 sudo apt update && sudo apt install yarn
 ```
 
-#### Get the source code
+#### macOS
+
+Install Rust using [the recommended option on rust-lang.org](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install) (rustup).
+
+Then, install [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) if you don't already have it installed.
+
+Finally, install Node and Yarn.
+
+```
+brew install node yarn
+```
+
+### Get the source code
 ```
 git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git
 # or alternatively from gitea
@@ -20,36 +30,49 @@ git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git
 All the following commands need to be run either in `lemmy/server` or `lemmy/ui`, as indicated
 by the `cd` command.
 
-#### Build the backend (Rust)
+### Build the backend (Rust)
 ```
 cd server
 cargo build
 # for development, use `cargo check` instead)
 ```
 
-#### Build the frontend (Typescript)
+### Build the frontend (Typescript)
 ```
 cd ui
 yarn
 yarn build
 ```
 
-#### Setup postgresql
+### Setup postgresql
+#### Ubuntu
 ```
 sudo apt install postgresql
 sudo systemctl start postgresql
-# initialize postgres database
+
+# Either execute server/db-init.sh, or manually initialize the postgres database:
 sudo -u postgres psql -c "create user lemmy with password 'password' superuser;" -U postgres
 sudo -u postgres psql -c 'create database lemmy with owner lemmy;' -U postgres
 export LEMMY_DATABASE_URL=postgres://lemmy:password@localhost:5432/lemmy
-# or execute server/db-init.sh
 ```
 
-#### Run a local development instance
+#### macOS
+```
+brew install postgresql
+brew services start postgresql
+/usr/local/opt/postgres/bin/createuser -s postgres
+
+# Either execute server/db-init.sh, or manually initialize the postgres database:
+psql -c "create user lemmy with password 'password' superuser;" -U postgres
+psql -c 'create database lemmy with owner lemmy;' -U postgres
+export LEMMY_DATABASE_URL=postgres://lemmy:password@localhost:5432/lemmy
+```
+
+### Run a local development instance
 ```
 # run each of these in a seperate terminal
 cd server && cargo run
-ui & yarn start
+cd ui && yarn start
 ```
 
 Then open [localhost:4444](http://localhost:4444) in your browser. It will auto-refresh if you edit