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Git/Bash/Node/npm on Windows

Update: there's an easier way to do this. Check out my new gist instead.

How I set up my Windows 10 machine for Node development. Time to complete: about 2 hours on a fast connection.

Requirements

  • Bash, not Windows shell
  • Git
  • Node/npm
  • nvm or equivalent (need to be able to switch Node versions easily)

Steps

  1. Download cmder
  2. Download Nodist
  3. Download Python, get 2.x instead of 3.x
  4. Modify your global environment variable to have ;C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts at the end
  5. Download Windows SDK for Windows 8.1
  6. Download Visual Studio, install and set it up, choose "custom" and check the "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" option, under "Programming Languages" > "Visual C++" (DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP). Edit from @mattpodwysocki: you should be able to get by with just Visual C++ standalone.

Make sure it works

mkdir test
cd test
npm init -y
npm install --save leveldown sqlite3 phantomjs-prebuilt browserify watchify webpack react

The above will install a bunch of popular modules, including a few native ones. If anything fails, you'll know.

Gotchas

  • Don't skip "Visual C++" when installing Visual Studio.
  • Restart Cmder after you change anything, or you might not see the changes.
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