Windows Dev and Setup: Recommendations and Best Practices [Collaborative Wiki]

Happy to look things over and give my suggestions here when it’s ready.

I was a long time macOS user but as my 2014 MBP started to get slow, I moved over to a desktop windows machine. I develop a redwood project daily with Windows and WSL2. No major issues so far - been a great experience.

There are some quirks I have noticed:

  • WSL layer can disconnect or hang (it usually needs a few mins to wake up again). If it’s bad, usually a reboot fixes it.
  • When doing a yarn install, this can cause a lot of file changes, and can also cause the WSL layer to slow down or hang.
  • The redwood extension does not work on WSL2.
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