You're reading from Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks Optimize your command-line usage and development processes with pro-level techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207561

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Windows Terminal

Concepts

Web Utilities

Author (1):

Will Fuqua

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal

2. Chapter 1: Getting started with the new Windows Terminal FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Learning the Windows Terminal UI

4. Chapter 3: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux profile

5. Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells

6. Chapter 4: Customizing your Windows Terminal settings

7. Chapter 5: Changing your Windows Terminal appearance

8. Chapter 6: Setting up keyboard shortcuts

9. Chapter 7: Hidden Windows Terminal Actions

10. Chapter 8: Tips for using PowerShell like a Pro

11. Chapter 9: Tips for Using Ubuntu like an Expert

12. Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

13. Chapter 10: Using Git and GitHub with Windows Terminal

14. Chapter 11: Building web applications with React

15. Chapter 12: Building REST APIs with C# and Windows Terminal

16. Chapter 13: Connecting to remote systems

17. Chapter 14: Managing systems in the cloud

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix Windows Terminal Actions

Chapter 11: Building web applications with React

In this chapter, we'll see how Windows Terminal can be used in modern development workflows. We'll build a small web application using React, a popular frontend JavaScript framework from Facebook. Windows Terminal will be one of the main tools in our toolbox.

We'll be using the experience we gained in previous chapters to both develop and run our application on Ubuntu in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). We're using Ubuntu because many JavaScript libraries tend to treat Windows 10 as an unfortunate second-class citizen, with Windows-specific issues remaining unfixed. We'll sidestep any compatibility issues with Windows 10 by using WSL2, and have a first-class development experience.

To keep this chapter concise and to the point, we won't be including a full tutorial on React, though we will explain some basic concepts along the way. The principles and techniques we cover in this chapter are generalizable...