Syncing Atom settings between multiple machines is useful in that you’re able to maintain all of your packages, settings, and so on regardless of the machine you’re on.

And yes, I’ve been talking about Atom a bit more as of late. I’m clearly a fan. But that’s evident, right?

If you maintain more than one machine, then it’s usually nice to have the same development environment configured between the two of them.

Here’s a method for syncing Atom’s settings between though it does assume you use Dropbox. If not, any service you use for sharing files can be used, but your actual steps will vary.

Syncing Atom Settings

Syncing Atom Settings

The gist of what we’re doing to do is:

  1. Move Atom’s settings into a directory in Dropbox.
  2. Make a symbolic link between Atom’s directory on the machine so that it references the settings in Dropbox.

It’s only two commands, but I think it’s worth understandĀ what we’ll be doing before actually doing it. Note that I maintain an apps directory in the root of my Dropbox directory, so my commands are using that path.

From the Terminal, first enter the following command:

$ mv ~/.atom ~/Dropbox/Apps/Atom

Next, enter this command:

$ ln -s ~/Dropbox/Apps/Atom ~/.atom

And that’s it. Once done, you’ve moved your Atom settings into Dropbox and then created the symbolic link from where AtomĀ expects to find its settings to where they are.