npm-scripts-example

I still refer back to this excellent post from 2014: http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool... And the still active, linked, github repo: https://github.com/keithamus/npm-scripts-example For playing with js/css(processors)/webpack things. I never quite understood the facination in the js community with build tools that don't quite replace npm. It just seems like an unwelcome source of extra clocs in the toolchain. I was also somewhat pleasantly surprised at the simplicity of the setup for the angular2 (beta) tutorial[a] -- even if it manages to pull down a 100mb of dev dependencies (dist dependencies are much more sane). And even if the particular tutorial stops (or did a few weeks ago) before it actually shows how to interact with any kind of external storage/db/api... [a] https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/quickstar

I'm not sure VirtualBox have an edge compared to "native" Hyper-V. If you're running windows 8.1 pro (which would be the sane choice, before 10 arrives) -- you have to change the boot options[1] if you want proper hw support for VirtualBox. Changing from Linux to Windows is indeed rather painful. As others have mentioned, depending on deployment/process etc -- you might still be better off trying to live on the windows side. I'm not a windows dev, but from what I've seen mentioned by others -- running php on windows w/IIS and SQL server works fine -- but you'll want to have a test/dev environment that matches prod -- or you'll just constantly run in to pain points -- especially if the team isn't on board/interested in investing in a full heterogeneous environment. For a small example with node, see eg: https://github.com/keithamus/npm-sc