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Software development with other tools through SSH or SFTP

Software development with other tools through SSH or SFTP - Windows Tutorial

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Software development with other tools through SSH or SFTP

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- [Instructor] While some tools like VS Code have a direct integration with a WSL Environment, not all tools we might use to edit code do. And for those, we can use SFTP a feature of SSH to communicate with our Linux environment. In this scenario, we would generally work within our development environment to run code and then switch to our WSL terminal to run that code or run tools that use that code. For this example, we'll use Node a popular JavaScript based app framework and Express a JavaScript framework that allows us to define routes, views, and other features that web apps rely on. And we'll use the free Notepad plus plus text editor. I've installed Notepad plus plus here on my system and you can download it from notepad-plus-plus.org. I'll switch to my WSL environment where I'll install NPM. (typing) To do that, I'll write apt install npm I'll, press Y to confirm and then the software will be installed.…

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