[meta] Development on Windows

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[meta] Development on Windows #36

Closed catarak closed 4 years ago

catarak commented 4 years ago

As someone who has done software development exclusively on Mac and Linux, I have no idea how folks develop JS applications on Windows. Apparently they use a thing called "Windows Subsystem for Linux." I'm going to try installing it on my Windows machine and report back...

joeyklee commented 4 years ago

I've used Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/ in the past... not sure what its status is though :/

catarak commented 4 years ago

So far I've been looking at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Express_Nodejs/development_environment and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/nodejs/setup-on-wsl2, looking good at the moment...

catarak commented 4 years ago

Issues I've run into so far:

I enabled the Windows Insider Program, but then I manually had to check for Windows Updates in order to enable WSL 2 (which is apparently better than WSL 1)

joeyklee commented 4 years ago

Oh this reminds me - maybe we should ask what operating systems people are using in our Student Survey form to get a feeling for what might be in store?

catarak commented 4 years ago

definitely!

catarak commented 4 years ago

last snag in this installation process is when it says "Open your Ubuntu 18.04 command line," what that actually means is

open the windows command prompt
type wsl and hit enter
make sure it takes you to your home directory: cd ~

i'll quickly make a guide that has all of these things right now!

joeyklee commented 4 years ago

Closed with the guides/windows-setup.md