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Setting Up Pop!_OS for Front End Development

Jeremy Morgan on May 15, 2020

If you've heard all the chatter lately about Pop!_OS and have been wanting to try it out, here's a good guide to setting up a front end development...
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Fulton Browne

And just as a note this can be applied to all variants to Ubuntu and most variants of Debian. Great article :]

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Derek Delaney

Nice article! I like the idea of trying this out in a virtual machine. I always dual boot linux then give it a shot and if I don’t like it I have to go through the hassle of removing it and fixing the boot loader. Virtual Machine!! 🤦‍♂️

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Aniket

Great Article!!
I'll just like to add that postman is pretty overkill for most front-end developers, maybe you should consider postwoman instead, as it is both lightweight and feature rich

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andrecavaco

Good article but instead of installing node like that you should take a look into nvm!

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Alex Menor

I would also suggest insomnia as an alternative to postman, much simpler imo.

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Lauren Clark

Insomnia is frickin awesome. Everytime I wanna run a quick GET in Postman i just end up mashing a button. I don’t wanna make a project now dammit

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Faqahat Khan

I think this will apply for all or most linux distros however i always fantasized PopOS but never got to try one. I definately will!

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Lorre Huggan

Great article especially the cloning libraries part as I have wondered what i would do if i need to create-react-app deep in the amazon rain forest.. Thank you

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Jackfiallos

In my case I have Insomnia instead of Postman and also have installed Flameshot to share screenshots, everything else is pretty similar.

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Hammed Oyedele

Great setup and for most of my command line utilities I use Homebrew for Linux

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Frontend Dude 👨‍💻

Great article Jeremy. Learnt a few things thanks!