How to Install Claude Code on Mac (2025): VS Code & IntelliJ Setup

Learn how to install Claude Code on your Mac with this comprehensive tutorial! We'll cover every installation method including terminal setup, IDE plugins, and the web version. 🎯 What You'll Learn: ✅ Shell Script Installation (Recommended & The Easiest) ✅ NPM Installation for Node.js developers ✅ IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Setup ✅ Visual Studio Code Extension Installation ✅ Claude Code Web (Browser-based, GitHub integration) ✅ Authentication & Configuration ✅ Troubleshooting Common Issues 📌 Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction & Why Claude Code 0:56 - Installation Options Overview 1:28 - Method 1: Shell Script Installation 3:18 - Method 2: NPM Installation 5:39 - Method 3: IntelliJ Plugin 6:42 - Method 4: VS Code Plugin 7:29 - Method 5: Claude Code Web 9:00 - Conclusion & Next Steps 🔗 Useful Links: Claude Code Official Site: https://claude.ai/code Claude Code Documentation: https://code.claude.com/docs Node.js Download: https://nodejs.org Anthropic Console (API Keys): https://console.anthropic.com Claude Pro Subscription: https://claude.ai/upgrade ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💻 INSTALLATION COMMANDS (COPY-PASTE READY) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 All commands in one place: https://gist.github.com/mkgraiitr/e57dbc88c0f49c81fc6343a34f20d740 ⚠️ For PATH issues and detailed setup, see the gist above ⬆️ 💡 What is Claude Code? Claude Code is an agentic AI coding assistant that can autonomously write, edit, and execute code across your entire project. Unlike traditional code completion tools, Claude Code understands your codebase, runs commands, and integrates seamlessly with your development workflow. 🔑 Key Features: Autonomous code generation and editing Terminal integration with full command execution IDE plugins for IntelliJ and VS Code GitHub integration for collaborative coding Context-aware with optimized token usage Support for multiple programming languages ⚙️ Requirements: macOS 10.15+ (Catalina or later) For npm method: Node.js 18+ Claude Pro/Max subscription OR Anthropic API key For Web version: GitHub account 🎓 Coming Next: In the next video, we'll explore: Chat mode and co-work functionality Custom agents and skills Advanced workflows and automation Best practices for production use 📢 Stay Connected: 🔔 Subscribe for more AI coding tutorials 👍 Like if you found this helpful 💬 Drop your questions in the comments 🔗 Share with fellow developers #ClaudeCode #AI #CodingAssistant #MacOS #Tutorial #Programming #Developer #VSCode #IntelliJ #NodeJS #GitHub #Anthropic #AITools #DevTools #Automation #plugins #ManojTyagiAI #AIforDevelopers About Your Trainer: Manoj Tyagi holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Roorkee, is a CFA charterholder, and has completed a Postgraduate Program in AI/ML from the University of Texas at Austin. He conducts free online sessions every Sunday, specially designed for industry professionals looking to upskill in AI and Machine Learning. Phone# +6591574359 X: https://x.com/mkgraiitr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyagimanojkumar/ email id: [email protected] Disclaimer: Claude Code is in active development. Features and installation methods may change. Always refer to the official documentation for the most up-to-date information.