Notes on Configuring Emacs for Web Development

New computer means new configuration from scratch! Since Emacs is the mainstay program I use across devices, I want to document how I’m doing web development with it right now. First I took the time to go over my init.el and remove anything I’m not using. I like to aim for about 100-120 lines of code on it. It’s an arbitrary number, but it makes it easy to know where things are whenever I change it. One of the drawbacks of Emacs is how fun and time consuming it can become to want to mess around with configurations, but that’s just procrastination so this limit is important to keep me in check. Here are my notes on how I’m setting up Emacs for web development. I’ve installed Emacs on macOS via the emacs-plus homebrew recipe. I learned about it from Alvaro Ramirez’s Awesome Emacs on macOS article. Emacs packages web-mode.el web-mode.el is an autonomous emacs major-mode for editing web templates. magit Magit is a complete text-based user interface to Git. It fills the glaring gap between…