Improvement to dev_web and dev_web_nodejs

[molant]

I'm going to work on improving the dev_web and dev_web_nodejs scripts. These are some of the ideas:

• Use nvs, with LTE and Latest Node Versions installed
• There is also an issue with the git VS Code wants to use not matching up with WSL git, so I’ve always bootstrapped this by using WSLGIT and pointing git in vscode towards that wslgit.exe
• Maybe install yarn as well
• Native WSL Deps Installed: (this would handle all of the native npm/node modules) that most people come across. (Zopfli, Reyon, neon-bindings etc.). build-essentials from apt-get
• Install Microsoft Edge DevTools preview
• Install webdriver. If it is an insiders this should be part of the "developer mode"
• VS Code with the Debugger extensions (Chrome, Edge) New: Install VS Code debugger extensions #48

I'll keep this issue updated with the progress.

[yodurr]

Thanks Anton! We're investigating enabling installing tools inside WSL. Need to first enable auto creation of the user rather than the current prompting. After that adding WSL install commands can happen and I agree will be very useful for these scripts.

[molant]

PR for VS Code extensions done (#48)

[jcklpe]

Would it be possible to create a separate bash script that gets executed after creation of the Unix User by hand? Just curious. I'm going to try that I think.

[RobCannon]

Here is the bash script that I use. The only hiccup is that the oh-my-zsh install is not a silent install.

https://github.com/RobCannon/boxstarter/blob/master/boxstarter.sh

There is also an example of keeping some Linux configurations in my OneDrive folder. That means I can delete my Ubuntu installation and rebuild it in about 20 minutes.

[jcklpe]

@RobCannon Nice! Also this is great because I was meaning to give zsh and Oh-my-zsh another try so this is a great!

also @molant Another idea would be to have Vscode install the [Sync Settings] extension which could then auto install and configure extensions for the user if provided with a github access token and a gist ID.

[RobCannon]

I tried using Sync Settings, but I had trouble automating the configuration. Just putting the settings folder into OneDrive has been much simpler and it means one less extension to load!

[jcklpe]

Ah yeah... I just realized that the extension list that sync settings outputs to the gist isn't made by sync settings, it's made and used by VScode isn't it? So should be syncable just like user settings. Nice. I'll have to try that.

I spent this past weekend getting my old desktop machine converted into a personal Linux cloud server so instead of hopping along with my very patch work dropbox configurations backup I'm going to do things right and symlink them like you did so that it can all be organized in one place 😄

[ddieppa]

Why not put VSCode extensions as a separate script? that way each developers has the ability to add or remove there daily basis extensions, could be a lot of extensions, could apply the same for Visual Studio workloads