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Source code for http://browsersync.io
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Visual Studio needed on Windows #42

Open Leninsky opened 8 years ago

Leninsky commented 8 years ago

I don't know why, but this seems an issue only to me with a 128Gb SSD only in my laptop and no need for VS. The size of VS is HUGE, I can get a virtualbox + linux + docker + browser-sync + rsync stack in 1/19th of the size of VS but seems overkill for just creating a proxy + js that refreshes the page when a file is changed.

I first thought browsersync was a pretty good one install solution... I don't understand why everyone hates windows so much, this was probably done on purpose.

Even better this gave me an idea to create a browser-sync tunnel service for sublime text.

Leninsky commented 8 years ago

Update, instead of Visual Studio one can install the Visual C++ build tools on Windows 10, but that still occupies over 4 gigabytes. Better than 10 gb, but still far from 100mb for a C++ compiler or Visual Studio Express 2013 (which doesn't worth on Windows 10)

More info : https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/629#issuecomment-153196245

A way better alternative would be to use precompiled modules at least for Windows. https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp