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Environment setup guide for my windows machine

WindowsEnvironmentSetup

Environment setup guide for my windows machine

Command Line Tool - cmder

• Go to https://cmder.net/
• Download latest full version (with git preinstalled)
• Unzip and move the cmder/ folder under desired path
• Edit windows environment variable, add /path/to/cmder and /path/to/cmder/bin to PATH
• Edit settings of cmder after starting one, change default startup task to {bash::bash}

Command line Tools for cmder

1. zip

• https://ranxing.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/add-zip-into-git-bash-on-windows/

Package Manager - chocolatey

• Go to https://chocolatey.org/install
• Install choco through windows poershell as admin according to the instruction included above

  Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
  

• Open cmder, type choco -v to verify chocolatey is installed

NodeJS and NVM

• Open cmder as admin
• Install node by running choco install nodejs
• Install nvm by running choco install nvm

Yarn

• Get Yarn by using npm: npm install -g yarn
• Yarn error: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "x.x.x". Got "x.x.x"
  • Run yarn with command --ignore-engines

Get Chrome Driver

• Go to https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
• Download the expected chrome driver version
• Unzip and move chromdriver.exe under the /path/to/cmder/bin/
• Chrome driver should be now accessible

Python

• Install using choco: choco install python

Git ByPassing username/password

• While using cmder bash shell, run ssh-keygen -t rsa #Press enter for all values
• A file named id_rsa.pub and a cert id_rsa should be created under the default location. e.g. C:\Users\[UserName]\.ssh
• Go to Github, click on your account icon, select Settings from dropdown
• Select SSH and GPG keys, add new SSH key with content of id_rsa.pub
• Update your local git repo remote to use the ssh url provided from github clone option, update your remote by running: git remote set-url [remote name] [git+ssh://[email protected]/username/reponame.git]