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Nik F P

I'm not a full time dev, so my machines have to pull double duty for other work. Related to dev I do the following:

First tools to set up:

  • VS Code
  • Docker
  • WSL2 (I use Windows machines)

Then within WSL2:

  • Git
  • Node Version Manager
  • Oh-My-Posh
  • PNPM (the only globally installed Node package I use)

Pretty much everything else I could install for local development (postgres, redis, etc) I run with Docker containers instead, keeps my local installs list short and clean.

Not required but I freaking love it: Windows Terminal. It's configurable and it just works.

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anasrin

same thing, install everything on docker image