What is your favorite local dev server?

AGiesey — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 20:52:56 +0000

Hi all! I found myself creating a prototype project locally in order to test out some javascript-ie things this week. Before I knew it I had ran

npm init

and found myself down the rabbit hole of trying to configure webpack for JS imports and looking for a simple webserver. I found these:
simple-autoreload-server
lite-server
webpack-dev-server

I wanted to reach out and ask the community what their favorite tools are for working with a project that doesn't use angular-cli, create-react-app or other similar tools.

Worst thing about Visual Studio

AGiesey — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:59:28 +0000

As many of you C# / .NET developers know, Microsoft Visual Studio is the IDE of choice for us. It's may even be impossible to build older apps in debug mode with anything else; as it seems to be at my current place of work. I have gotten used to using Visual Studio over the years after a somewhat rocky transition from IntelliJ and Java. But there is one thing that continues to be the bane of my relationship with the IDE -

This is that CTRL + P is mapped to PRINT and not open file like EVERY OTHER IDE EVER CREATED!

I know the key mappings can be reconfigured, and I did that when I first started at a C# shop but was horribly disappointed when the first time I upgraded (at VS's suggestion) and my mapping was reset.

I ask why, Microsoft? WHY?? I imagine a developer has not needed to print out their code since shortly after the Apollo program shut down, must you be such a slave to tradition?

Thanks for reading my rant and happy Friday, DEV!

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What is your favorite local dev server?

Worst thing about Visual Studio