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Git/Bash/Node/npm on Windows
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Git/Bash/Node/npm on Windows

Requirements

  • Bash, not Windows shell
  • Git
  • Node/npm
  • nvm or equivalent (need to be able to switch Node versions easily)

Steps

  1. Download cmder
  2. Download Nodist
  3. Download Python, get 2.x instead of 3.x
  4. Modify your env variable to have `;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts
  5. Download Windows SDK for Windows 8.1
  6. Download Visual Studio, install and set it up, choose "custom" and check the "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" option, under "Programming Languages" > "Visual C++" (DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP)
  7. Run npm config set msvs_version 2013 --global
  8. Install MS Build Tools 2013
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