Set Up a Modern Local Dev Environment with WSL2, VS Code & Docker on Windows 10/11
Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 30-45 minutes
Introduction
Developing on Windows used to mean tradeoffs: poor POSIX compatibility, slow filesystem IO in cross-platform toolchains, or switching to a VM...
code extensions
cross-platform
dev environment setup
docker
docker compose
docker onwindowslinuxdevelopmentonwindowslinux file system performance
local development
remote linux subsystem
troubleshooting linux subsystem
virtualization
visual studio code
windows 11 developmentwindows subsystem for linux