Windows vs WSL2 for dev environment
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millpreet
04/03/2023, 6:07 PMwindows vs WSL2 for dev environment. Chime in with your environments. so far I was learning to use Sail inside of WSL2 since long term I would prefer to run this site in a containerized fashion, likely on a cloud platform eventually. where will initial setup for dev be simpler?
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ifox
04/03/2023, 6:11 PMI'm not a windows user but when I do I definitely go for WSL2. Your production container will most likely be Unix based so always best to work in dev with that environment too
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millpreet
04/03/2023, 6:12 PMmakes sense, thanks @ifox appreciate the quick help to the questions
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jefsev
04/03/2023, 7:41 PMI moved from mac to windows and WSL2 is probably a must. I used docket but did not like the performance so now i just run a server on linux using WSL2. As soon as you get WSL2 up and running it's a breeze to use. Windows not so much for laravel i do use visual studio for .net projects in that case windows is the way to go. 😛
jefsev
04/05/2023, 6:34 PMFor me performance was notable as soon as i was running docker, adobe xd, phpstorm and alot of browser tabs. Docker was eating up ram and alot of disk space on top of that.
jefsev
04/05/2023, 6:35 PMNow i installed mysql on WSL ubuntu 20.04 and php, node etc. and there is a artisan command to run a php development server. Command is php artisan serve
jefsev
04/05/2023, 6:35 PMfor 99% of the cases this is sufficient for my current use
jefsev
04/05/2023, 6:38 PMI do think docker is overhyped to be honest. If you get a grip on linux and how webservers work it's not that hard to run a dev env yourself. You have to get use to doing everything in your command line. I use windows terminal from the windows store which is great. Creating database will be done using the terminal for example.
jefsev
04/05/2023, 6:39 PMand the neat thing about phpstorm is that it has it's own mysql gui build in with which you can acces your databases.
jefsev
04/05/2023, 6:42 PMBut is you have a beast laptop or pc docker is fine when using it with new laravel projects. I have alot of older projects which are not configured using docker and i hate making my own docker configs because it feels like it always take 10 times more than in your own linux.
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millpreet
04/10/2023, 3:58 AMand I am indeed starting new projects from scratch, so not doing it now would put me in your old projects that aren't configured scenario so best off to do it this way