WSL Setup Scripts

This collection of distribution-agnostic shell scripts facilitates the configuration of WSL for AWS and Node.js development.

First thing first

Assume WSL installed and enabled, you will need to re-configure everything you have in the powershell or gitbash or etc. into WSL.

Below scripts to make the process easy for you. However you'll need to setup git first.

Important:

• All commands from this point on should be run in WSL using Microsoft Terminal
• Ensure you have cloned this repo in your WSL environment first in order to run the script. And script should be run under the cloned repo folder.

If git is not installed yet in your WSL, you can install it via the following:

sudo apt install git -y

When you have git installed, configure it as follows to get it to work with Github, Please use Linux reference:

• Configuring github SSH

Automated way

Simply automate all by running the following instead.

The script below is provided in this repo. You'll have to clone/download the repo to run it properly.

sudo chmod +x ./automate-setup.sh & \
. ./automate-setup.sh

Purging the installation

If in any case you messed up the setup process, you can purge the installation items by running the following script.

sudo chmod +x ./purge-setup.sh & \
. ./purge-setup.sh

References: Common Scripts

Title	Description	Link
ZSH	Z-Shell to powerup your Bash experience	ReadMe
NVM	Node Version Manager (NVM) to use multiple version of NodeJs	ReadMe
AWS	AWS CLI to run AWS commands from terminal	ReadMe

Recommendation:

The order that we should be executing the scripts above are as follows:

ZSH > NVM > AWS