Summary

In this chapter, we showed how Windows Terminal can be used to set up a first-class Node.js development environment in WSL2. We used it to install Node.js, and then run the create-react-app command to install dependencies and set up a basic application. We also used it to launch Visual Studio Code in the WSL2 development mode.

After that, we showed how to use Windows Terminal during development, by opening panes that provide quick access to important information. We also set up an interactive Node.js session from within WSL2, so we could experiment with the JavaScript Date object and other parts of JavaScript.

Now that we've explored using Windows Terminal in frontend development, let's see how it fares at backend development with .NET Core.