Tools to achieve a 10x developer workflow on Windows

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • .dotfiles

    10X DEVELOPER WORKFLOW CONFIG FILES FOR WINDOWS (by andresestrella)

  • This article is based off of my .dotfiles repo and makes references to files inside of it. To go to linked notes read the article on my site

  • LunarVim

    🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.

  • I would suggest to start getting into vim by first trying out popular vim keybinding plugins available on your favorite code editor and get used to those first. Then, if you want to dive deeper into the power of Neovim, try out popular configs like LazyVim, LunarVim, NvChad... Taking Neovim from a mere text editor to a full-featured IDE with features like intellisense, debugging, testing, etc... on your own takes quite a lot of work and configuration.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • WingetUI

    WingetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers

  • Second, install all the packages and programming languages. For this I use WingetUI, an amazing GUI for finding and managing packages from all sorts of windows package managers. Edit WingetUI-Packages.json by deleting the packages you don't want, then import the file into WingetUI and install the packages.

  • oh-my-posh

    The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

  • Initializes oh-my-posh and sets a prompt theme

  • ZLocation

    ZLocation is the new Jump-Location

  • imports Z location: for accessing your most used directories fast

  • PSReadLine

    A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

  • sets up PSReadLine: command autocompletion and many other features.

  • NvChad

    Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

  • I would suggest to start getting into vim by first trying out popular vim keybinding plugins available on your favorite code editor and get used to those first. Then, if you want to dive deeper into the power of Neovim, try out popular configs like LazyVim, LunarVim, NvChad... Taking Neovim from a mere text editor to a full-featured IDE with features like intellisense, debugging, testing, etc... on your own takes quite a lot of work and configuration.

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  • PSFzf

    A PowerShell wrapper around the fuzzy finder fzf

  • Sets up PSFzf: PowerShell wrapper for fzf, for fuzzy finding files and directories

  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  • The terminal emulator I use is Windows Terminal

  • komorebi

    A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

  • The two biggest tiling window manager projects for Windows are komorebi and GlazeWM. Komorebi is probably faster and more resource efficient since it is written in Rust, but I stick with Glaze for now since it has a cool status bar built in I like.

  • glazewm

    GlazeWM is a tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar.

  • The two biggest tiling window manager projects for Windows are komorebi and GlazeWM. Komorebi is probably faster and more resource efficient since it is written in Rust, but I stick with Glaze for now since it has a cool status bar built in I like.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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