![]() Wait for this to complete then you will be prompted to create a user and a password for the account. Check the link for a complete list of windows keyboard shortcuts.Īfter restarting you can open the Ubuntu program from the start menu and the second install (of WSL on your system) should happen. You will be prompted to restart your machine after this, which you should do. ![]() Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux So Windows key+x then a, will open the user account control (Admin) prompt, presuming you have admin rights on your machine you’ll need to click yes to continue.Ĭopy the code here and paste it into the PowerShell window, Ctrl+v will work in PowerShell, press enter to execute the command. From here you need to select the Windows PowerShell (Admin) option, you can do this by pressing a on the keyboard. Use Windows key+x, this is the same as right-clicking the windows icon on the desktop, this will open the quick link menu. env files which are used for environment configuration. git folder in project structures it's also needed for files like. The reason we’re doing this is so that we can see the. Then click the Options button on the far right, this will bring up the Folder Options dialog, from here we want to select the View tab and select the Radio button for Hidden files and folders with the ‘Show hidden files, folders and drives’, uncheck the option for ‘Hide extensions for known file types’ too. Open the Windows File Explorer with Windows key+e then select View from the ribbon. Whilst we’re at it we should also enable hidden folders and add files extensions for known file types in Windows File Explorer. The official guidance covers it very well, but I’m going to add in the shortcut keys here if you don’t want to be clicking around with the mouse.īefore that however, if you haven’t selected PowerShell as your default Command Prompt you can select it from the Taskbar settings page located in the Personalisation section in the Settings, I suggest doing that now: You can install Ubuntu from the Microsoft store which will be the first half of the install the second will be when you open the app. These instructions are for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and later. To go from a fresh instance of Windows 10 to something you can develop web apps with. This guide will cover installing Ubuntu but you can use some of the other flavours of Linux available in the Windows store, the Debian setup will be very similar to the Ubuntu one. This is the refresh on my guide from the start of the year on setting up a web development environment on a Windows machine. So I’m about 4 months in using Windows at work full time, and tbh it’s not bad at all.- PATAGUCCI MANE December 20, 2018 If you don’t have a Windows machine then this post probably isn’t for you, if this is different from what you use, it doesn’t make it bad. Anyway, let’s leave the weak reasoning behind as that’s not the purpose of this post! With Windows/Linux I like to have my Ctrl key as the key to use for copy-paste operations and I can use my left pinky instead of my thumb. My preferred OS to use is Windows, for no other reason than I prefer the keyboard layout. I have been a professional web developer since march 2018 and used both MacOs and Windows in that time. An opinionated guide on setting up a web development environment on Windows 10
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