Setting up Windows for Web Development. Tips?

• Windows Terminal

  506 93,467 9.7 C++

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

  

As others have mentioned get WSL. But I'd also recommend getting the new Windows Terminal (it's a beta version), you can find it on https://github.com/microsoft/terminal or in the Microsoft store.

• cmder

  78 25,551 6.4 C++

  Lovely console emulator package for Windows

  

Cmdr is the best terminal replacement: https://cmder.net/

• WorkOS

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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.

  

• PowerShell

  397 43,290 9.6 C#

  PowerShell for every system!

  

• Scoop

  252 19,855 8.7 PowerShell

  A command-line installer for Windows.

  

Scoop. Kind of a dev-oriented version of Chocolatey i.e. doesn't support as many consumer programs, but it also installs things in a very *nix-like way (everything in ~/Scoop/) which can cause problems on windows. I've avoided it.

• oh-my-posh

  114 14,144 9.7 Go

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

Note: If you want to trick out your terminal like the Zshell crowd do - https://ohmyposh.dev

• Chocolatey

  394 9,866 8.4 C#

  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

Chocolatey. This is primarily what I use to keep sys programs updated. For dev, if there's a native package manager (e.g. node/npm, php/composer, python/pip, etc) then ill defer to that. Also note PS core has it's own internal module manager, PS Gallery.

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