Building a Complete Developer Terminal Setup for Claude Code — Part 5: Terminal Environment

By Avinash, GenAI Practice Lead | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 of 6 The terminal environment around Claude Code matters as much as Claude Code itself. You spend hours in this environment — the less friction it has, the more thinking you can direct at the actual work. This part covers everything outside Claude Code: iTerm2, tmux, starship, fzf, and zsh plugins. iTerm2 Replace macOS Terminal with iTerm2. The reasons that matter for this setup specifically are true 24-bit color render