Onboarding Documentation - Windows Setup

[vecchp]

As a developer I would like to get started with the Better Angels Repo on a Windows Machine. I need a Getting Started guide in which to set up my Windows Development Machine. This will require installing Docker, WSL2, Visual Studio Code, and what is necessary to configure the local Android emulator for mobile application development (including OpenGL Hardware Acceleration). It is unlikely the iOS emulator will work on windows.

Helpful links

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
• https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/
• https://code.visualstudio.com/
• https://developer.android.com/studio
• https://www.charcoalstyles.com/blog/android-development-in-wsl2/

[vuice]

@vecchp is there a standard list of vscode extensions that we want everyone working on the monorepo to have?

[vecchp]

We already have a list of extensions that automatically get installed when you use the development container.

For mobile dev which is done outside the container we have also a set of recommended extensions that integrate with VSCodes extension recommendation.

The container ones can be found in devcontainer.json (they get automatically installed )

The non container ones can be found in extensions.json.

The current workflow is to do all coding within the container and run the mobile app dev commands outside.