Installing WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux

Installing WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux

WSL is a new feature of Windows 10 version 1607 or later which allows user to run linux tools / utilities directly on Windows 10 alongside with windows applications.

Refer below link for installation instructions for WSL and enablingWSL in vscode.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl

Prefered way is to install the linux distribution via Windows Store (in my case I used Ubuntu).

ENABLING WSL IN WINDOWS VIA POWERSHELL

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

INSTALLING NODEJS ON WSL

We are required to install node.js separatly in WSL environment. This needs to be done as the root user by just adding sudo command before the command we need to execute.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

We also need some basic build tools for node.js that can be done using below command.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

INSTALL NVM TOOL

Installing NVM tool will provide us the ability to install and run multiple versions of node.

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.0/install.sh | bash

nvm install --lts

nvm use --lts

INSTALL AWS CLI ON WSL

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-bundle.html

Above site has detailed instructions to install AWS CLI on WSL. Once installed, aws configure needs to be done.