Windows EZ dev setup

In commun usage, a scoop is any specialized spoon used to serve food.

In windows scoop is a command-line installer for Windows, you dont have to click the next button and google your way in finding the installer of a common app.

A developer todays installs tons of dependencies to build something that meets the users demand.

Installation

Every windows 10 and 11 nowadays have the basic scoop requirements

Run powershell
Paste the following command

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser # Optional: Needed to run a remote script the first time
irm get.scoop.sh | iex

if your account is an administrator please follow this link

If anything goes well you can close your powershell window
Before proceeding please uninstall nodejs, windows terminal or vscode as scoop will not uninstall it for you
Scoop application lives in your home folder e.g C:/Users/youraccount/scoop/

Apps to be installed for common JS Development

The provided links are their repositories, we are devs not animals If you went through all the links you can read things about how to install them

Git an open source distributer version control system
Windows Terminal a terminal with tabs
Vistual Studio Code a text editor
NVM(Node Version Manager) like scoop it manages node versions for you
Pwsh A new version of powershell

Now run cmd or powershell

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install git nvm extras/windows-terminal extrax/vscode

After installation please use your new windows terminal

Installing nodejs with nvm

# I am using lts(Long Term Support) version
nvm install lts
# If you want the lastest cutting edge , gun in the foot nodejs use the command below
nvm install latest

If you need a specific version of nodejs follow this link

After installing node lets activate a certain version

# nvm use version for whatever version you installed
nvm use lts
# check installation
node -v
npm -v

If you are looking for the context menu where you open windows terminal or vscode on a certain folder install-context.reg is provided for you at e.g for windows terminal C:\Users\yourname\scoop\apps\windows-terminal\current C:\Users\yourname\scoop\apps\pwsh\current same goes for vscode just look at the current folder of a certain app

I personally use pnpm to handle my node packages on projects dont ask me why go here

scoop install pnpm

A scoop update pnpm wont work if pnpm installed a global package at this point pnpm manages its own version

I also use a nerd-font called FiraCode

scoop bucket add nerd-fonts
scoop install nerd-fonts/FiraCode-NF

For more Scoop packages search here even winrar is there but ffs use 7-zip it can also unrar a rar file.

Visual Studio Code

Depending on the framework or library you are using there are some useful extensions you can use

Please refer to the official docs on how to install extensions and tools for your convinience.

Personally i use the following

Its a swarm of extensions so be aware of what you are installing

A quick note

Only Install what you need
Use an official extension for a framework or workflow you need

A good example is for svelte the officials ones have a ✔️ vsextension

Testing your environment

In this exercise we are gonna scaffold a SvelteKit project

Open your windows terminal the default directory where it hopens is where your home directory is C:\Users\yourusername
Create a Projets folder and go into into that directory

mkdir Projects # Creates a Project directory
cd Projects # Go in the Projects directory

Create a SvelteKit app

#if using npm replace pnpm with npm
pnpm create svelte@latest

Prompts use enter to select the option space for multi selection and arrow keys for navigation

Where should we create your project? give a directory name where your project source code will be created at
Which Svelte app template? Either a Skeleton Project for app development
Add type checking with TypeScript? either use JS with doc comments or Typescript
Some extra cool stuff to be added

An Image of the process

devsvelte

An Example proccess

Administrator in ~ via 🌙
❯ cd projects

Administrator in ~Projects
❯ pnpm create svelte@latest
.../Local/pnpm/store/v3/tmp/dlx-10076    |   +6 +
Packages are hard linked from the content-addressable store to the virtual store.
  Content-addressable store is at: C:UsersAdministratorAppDataLocalpnpmstore3
  Virtual store is at:             ../AppData/Local/pnpm/store/v3/tmp/dlx-10076/node_modules/.pnpm
.../Local/pnpm/store/v3/tmp/dlx-10076    | Progress: resolved 6, reused 6, downloaded 0, added 6, done

create-svelte version 5.0.2

┌  Welcome to SvelteKit!
│
◇  Where should we create your project?
│  awesomesvelte
│
◇  Which Svelte app template?
│  Skeleton project
│
◇  Add type checking with TypeScript?
│  Yes, using TypeScript syntax
│
◇  Select additional options (use arrow keys/space bar)
│  Add ESLint for code linting, Add Prettier for code formatting, Add Playwright for browser testing, Add Vitest for
unit testing
│
└  Your project is ready!

✔ Typescript
  Inside Svelte components, use <script lang="ts">

✔ ESLint
  https://github.com/sveltejs/eslint-plugin-svelte

✔ Prettier
  https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html
  https://github.com/sveltejs/prettier-plugin-svelte#options

✔ Playwright
  https://playwright.dev

✔ Vitest
  https://vitest.dev

Install community-maintained integrations:
  https://github.com/svelte-add/svelte-add

Next steps:
  1: cd awesomesvlete
  2: npm install (or pnpm install, etc)
  3: git init && git add -A && git commit -m "Initial commit" (optional)
  4: npm run dev -- --open

To close the dev server, hit Ctrl-C

Stuck? Visit us at https://svelte.dev/chat

Go isnside the directory svelte just created for us e.g awesomesvelte or whatever the project name you chose

cd awesomesvelte

Install dependencies

# or npm install
pnpm install

Open it in Visual Studio code

code .

Run in VSCode terminal or your windows terminal

# or npm run dev
pnpm dev

If all went well you can open your browser and head to http://localhost:5173

scaffolddone

Awesome! Goodluck, the goal of this post is to improve our developer experience.