An Easy to use Package Manager

Developers love package managers to quickly find and install third-party applications. In Windows the developers have at their disposal different package managers, Chocolatey and Scoop are very good options, in this talk I will show you Scoop.

An Easy to use Package Manager

Scoop is really easy to use, and you can install a lot of useful packages.

An Easy to use Package Manager

You can use an automatic script with all the packages you need to install and configurate your development environment in a breeze.

Multiple Virtual Desktops

I find this feature extremely useful. Imagine that you want to have multiple desktops configured with certain apps, etc and be able to toggle through them as needed.

Virtual desktops are very straightforward in Windows, you can use the keyboard or the mouse to use them.

Multiple Virtual Desktops

You can click in the Task View icon in the taskbar (or use Windows Key + Tab) to access the virtual desktops panel, and create, modify or delete them.

Multiple Virtual Desktops

But I really prefer to do it with the keyboard, to add a Virtual Desktop use the shortcut Windows Key + Ctrl + D.

To Delete a virtual desktop with the keyboard you can use Windows Key + Ctrl + F4.

To switch from one virtual desktop to another you can use Windows Key + CTRL + Left arrow and Windows key + CTRL + Right arrow.

Multiple Virtual Desktops

To move application between virtual desktop, you have to do it through the Task View panel.

Window Snapping​

Snap, a windows management technique, has some cool new features in Windows 10. You can now snap windows vertically—one on top of each other, instead of side-by-side—or snap windows to a 2×2 grid.

Window Snapping​

• Windows Key + Left arrow: Snap current window to the left side of the screen.
• Windows Key + Right arrow: Snap current window the the right side of the screen.
• Windows Key + Up arrow: Snap current window to the top of the screen.
• Windows Key + Down arrow: Snap current window to the bottom of the screen.

Snipping Tool​

Sometimes we need some screenshots, for example share it with a colleague or to report some bug; Windows have a cool an easy to use Snipping tool.  Just type snipping with the global search option (like Synapse in Linux or Alfred or Spotlight in OS X); use Windows key + S to access the global search option.

Snipping Tool​

At this point, you should know that there are four types of snips provided by the tool.

• Free Form Snip: You can draw a line or anything as per your need around the area that you want to capture.
• Rectangular Snip: Here you have to hold and drag the cursor around the area to form a rectangular snip.
• Window Snip: This option will allow you to capture a dialog box or a browser window.
• Full – Screen Snip: It will capture the full screen.

Timeline

Windows 10’s Timeline feature helps answer the question: what was I working on? This handy, optional feature can track what documents and Web pages you’ve been working on over the past weeks and months, organizing them into a collection of documents you can quickly open to pick up where you left off.

Timeline

To use Timeline you have to click Task View icon in the taskbar (or use Windows Key + Tab).

How to enable and disable Timeline

Windows assumes that you want Timeline turned on. If you don’t, or you’d like to manage how Microsoft uses your information, visit the Settings menu at Settings > Privacy > Activity History.

Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability, theming & styling, and more.

Windows Terminal

Windows Subsytem For Linux

The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run GNU/Linux environment (including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications) directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine.

WSL

1. Open Settings -> Update and Security -> For developers.
2. Select the Developer Mode radio button.

WSL

1. From global search type "Turn Windows features on or off"
2. Select the option Windows Subsystem for Linux.

WSL

Open the Microsoft Store and choose your favorite Linux distribution.

WSL

Now we can configure our environment in the same way we do in Linux.

WSL

To make zsh your default shell you have to edit the ~/.bashrc  file and add the following to the beginning of the file:

WSL

Now we can install and use different versions of Node.js.

WSL

If nvm does not work, and you are using zsh, it may be that the installation script did not add the configuration to the zsh configuration file; edit the ~/.zshrc file file and add the following: