Windows Subsystem for Linux

You can use WSL2 linked to VS Code to do node development (speeds up development since the Malware scanner does not run across the WSL2 virtual disk).

Follow the instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install And here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/javascript/nodejs-on-wsl

Quirks

Networks

By default, networking won’t work (DNS resolution fails) so run the following command:

sudo chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf
sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 10.150.0.117" > /etc/resolv.conf'
sudo bash -c 'echo "[network]" > /etc/wsl.conf'
sudo bash -c 'echo "generateResolvConf = false" >> /etc/wsl.conf'
sudo chattr -f +i /etc/resolv.conf

Git

To use your Windows credentials to access Git repos in WLS2 run the following command (a newish version of Git Bash must be install in Windows):

git config --global credential.helper "/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/bin/git-credential-manager-core.exe"

Typescript server crashing

If when you start VSCode the Typescript server crashes you might need to increase the ‘Max TS Server Memory’ in VSCode.

Azure CLI

If you need to access / log in to Azure, first install the Az CLI in Ubuntu: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-linux?pivots=apt#option-1-install-with-one-command

The use device code login to authenticate via the browser:

az login --use-device-code

I have had the best success logging into Azure with device codes using Firefox with Containers