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WindowsĪs with some other programming tools, using the terminal (or command line) on Windows has traditionally not been as simple or easy as on other operating systems. The terminal is available on macOS at Applications/Utilities/Terminal. macOS Darwin mostly has parity with Unix, certainly good enough to not cause us any worries as we work through this article. Darwin is the Unix-like system, which provides the terminal, and access to the low-level tools. MacOS has a system called Darwin that sits underneath the graphical user interface. Linux/UnixĪs hinted at above, Linux/Unix systems have a terminal available by default, listed among your Applications.

In this section, we’ll look at how to get access to the terminal on your chosen system.

Many tutorials and tools that exist on the web today support (and sadly assume) Unix-based systems, but not to worry - they are available on most systems. the terminal, and the tools you can access through it). Many developers today are using Unix-based tools (e.g. On the surface they’re far from welcoming but there’s a lot you can do with them, and we promise that, with a bit of guidance and practice, using them will get easier! This is why we are providing this chapter - to help you get started in this seemingly unfriendly environment. Viewing the command line for the first time can be a daunting experience: a blank screen and a blinking cursor, with very little obvious help available on what to do. One of the biggest criticisms of the command line is that it lacks hugely in user experience. We’ll see how to install some tools later on in this chapter, and we’ll learn more about package registries in the next chapter. Package registries are like app stores, but (mostly) for command line based tools and software. If you're running any tooling for web development there's a near-guaranteed chance that you'll have to pop open the command line and run some commands to use your chosen tools (you'll often see such tools referred to as CLI tools - command line interface tools).Ī large number of tools can be used by typing commands into the command line many come pre-installed on your system, and a huge number of others are installable from package registries. The terminal is a text interface for executing text-based programs.