Windows setup for development

Node, Npm, Python - who knew there was so much involved in a dev setup?

Posted by Rodney Hartzell on 2021-03-13
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Developer setup

I recently had a foray into setting up my Windows VM, on MAC Parallels, for running all of the 4 of the applications that currently make up the transient state of development.

Two of the applications were fully and 100% developed outside of Windows in the bash environment of Mac OS. It wasn’t terrible getting them up and running on Windows but there were a few caveats that I just wanted to quickly document.

I’m finally to the place that I thought I would be this time last week. It took an awful lot of housekeeping to get everything running and playing nice on my windows VM.

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- Update to latest node
- Update to latest npm
- Adding latest python to get npm install working right.
- Publishing one VueJs application to act as a drop in on the local running instance of a legacy application.

I kid you not. This was painful. But, I learned some things.


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