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Discussion on: Getting forem to run well on windows for development

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Chris Pluta

We followed the Windows Install guide and it works out well for us!

If you are looking at the windows install documentation you will notice it's a little out of date. The key differences are using elasticsearch-7.9.2, node v12.8.3 and rails 6.0.3.3. With node we use nvm to manage the versions. In terms of editor we use VSCode.

We have yet to need docker and everything has worked through yarn.

Full disclosure -- we set this up before WSL2 was a thing, but we still have yet to use docker all though the installation says it's needed. But we are able to run redis from WSL, elastic search from Windows and the rails server via WSL. If you want to follow this method let me know and I will hunt through a bunch of emails to see if I have better documentation between my partners and I to get you going. 😁

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Christopher Wray

Chris, thank you!