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As mentioned, JS devs seem to favor Macs heavily and the majority of popular JS-related tools seem to be built for *nix first. As a Windows user, I frequently r

As mentioned, JS devs seem to favor Macs heavily and the majority of popular JS-related tools seem to be built for *nix first. As a Windows user, I frequently ran into annoying friction. Like some step in a complicated build process failing because someone used `&&` in an NPM script. That said, I've switched to a WSL environment (native Linux on Windows) and it has handled everything I've thrown at it so far, including make scripts, GUI apps, etc.

majewsky 9y ago
Does Docker work on WSL?
- Zekio 9y ago
  Not as far as I know, but docker on windows will spin up a HyperV VM so you still get a pretty good experience
- nunez 9y ago
  Yes! Sort of. You need Docker for Windows and have to have the DOCKER_HOST of your Linux subsystem be connected to it. But volume mounting doesn't work :( As such, I use an Ubuntu Vagrant box.
  - majewsky 9y ago
    Meh. I guess I'll continue with my current setup (Arch Linux on Virtualbox) for the time being.
hungerstrike 9y ago
`&&` works in my NPM scripts on Windows 10. Here's one line from my current project: "build-intl": "npm run build-intl-translations && npm run build-intl-locales", Perhaps this is something that didn't work early on. I've been using Node.js on Windows since before v0.10 and I have had some issues here and there but these days it's a dream.
- EnderMB 9y ago
  IIRC, Powershell and CMD have different chain syntax, so it depends which one you're running from. If I'm using CMD I can use &&, whereas | works on PS. I might be wildly wrong on this one, but I'm a big fan of writing "git add . && git commit -m "Commit Message" && git push origin master", and I noticed that in a Powershell window I had to use the vertical bar instead of double-ampersands.
  - hungerstrike 9y ago
    Wow, I have to try that out later. I have always avoided powershell in favor of CMD because I wasn’t sure of what powershell extras would get my way. Seems like this would be one example of that.

majewsky 9y ago

Does Docker work on WSL?

Zekio 9y ago
Not as far as I know, but docker on windows will spin up a HyperV VM so you still get a pretty good experience
nunez 9y ago
Yes! Sort of. You need Docker for Windows and have to have the DOCKER_HOST of your Linux subsystem be connected to it. But volume mounting doesn't work :( As such, I use an Ubuntu Vagrant box.
- majewsky 9y ago
  Meh. I guess I'll continue with my current setup (Arch Linux on Virtualbox) for the time being.

hungerstrike 9y ago

`&&` works in my NPM scripts on Windows 10. Here's one line from my current project: "build-intl": "npm run build-intl-translations && npm run build-intl-locales", Perhaps this is something that didn't work early on. I've been using Node.js on Windows since before v0.10 and I have had some issues here and there but these days it's a dream.

EnderMB 9y ago
IIRC, Powershell and CMD have different chain syntax, so it depends which one you're running from. If I'm using CMD I can use &&, whereas | works on PS. I might be wildly wrong on this one, but I'm a big fan of writing "git add . && git commit -m "Commit Message" && git push origin master", and I noticed that in a Powershell window I had to use the vertical bar instead of double-ampersands.
- hungerstrike 9y ago
  Wow, I have to try that out later. I have always avoided powershell in favor of CMD because I wasn’t sure of what powershell extras would get my way. Seems like this would be one example of that.