Setting Up Laravel Dev Machine With WSL

1. Windows 10 Insiders Build windows 10 build 14971

2. Enable WSL Enable WSL Commands

3. Mintty WSL Latest build Mintty WSL

4. Enable Hyper V Enable Hyper V

5. Install Docker For Windows Stable

6. Setting Up User For Our Terminal

   1. Create a Zsh User This User Will be Using Zsh Command to Allow Us to Beautify Our Terminal and Vim

      sudo adduser ${username}
      

   2. Set Root as the default User It is Important That When We Run Bash in WSL the Default User is Root and not Our ZSH User Allows Us To Use functions in Our .bash_profile dotfiles using Command bash -ic

      lxrun /setdefaultuser root
      

   3. Update WSL

      lxrun /update
      

7. Creating Neccessary Directories in Windows

   %USERPROFILE%\bin
   %USERPROFILE%\.dotfiles
   %USERPROFILE%\sites
   

   1. Bin folder will hold our Windows Batch Files

      alias.bat ,allows us to CRUD cmd alias from user-aliases.cmd cdx.bat allows us to easily navigate in cmd by saving directories

   2. .Dotfiles folder will hold our cmd and oh-my-zsh config folder

      1. cmd folder

         • cmdrc.cmd (Requires to Be added in our regedit, Holds Our Core Aliases to Avoid Being Deleted or Override)
         • user-aliases.cmd (Holds All our Laravel Aliases and Other Aliases Added At Run Time)

      2. oh-my-zsh

         • theme/materialshellelectro.zsh.theme (Make Our Zsh Terminal To Look Better)

   3. Sites Folder Will Hold Our Laravel Projects

8. Adding All Necessary Config Files

   Gists

   • minttyrc(mintty)

   %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\home\%USERNAME%\.minttyrc
   

   • bashrc(root user)

   ~/.bashrc
   

   • bashrc(zsh user) , important here is that we tell bash to use zsh as our default shell

   ~/.bashrc
   

   • bashprofile(all user)

   %USERPROFILE%\.dotfiles\.bash_profile
   

   • zshrc(zsh user)

   ~/.zshrc
   

   • vimrc (zsh user)

   ~/.vimrc
   

   • plugins.vim (zsh user)

   ~/.vim/plugins.vim
   

   • .ackrc (zsh user)

   ~/.ackrc
   

   • alias.bat (cmd)

   %USERPROFILE%\bin\alias.bat
   

   • cdx.bat (cmd)

   %USERPROFILE%\bin\cdx.bat
   

   • cmdrc.cmd (cmd)

   %USERPROFILE%\.dotfiles\cmd\cmdrc.cmd
   

9. Installing Beautiful Font to Our Terminal

   Download Dejavu Sans Mono For Powerline Nerd Font Complete Mono Windows Compatible

10. Installing Vim Vundle for Managing Vim Plugins

    git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
    

11. Adding Our Custom Themes of Oh-My-Zsh

    Folder structure

    ohmyzsh
    -lib.zsh (optional)
    -plugins 
    -themes  (materialshellelectro.zsh.theme) 
    

    Download Material Shell Electro

    Save it On

    %USERPROFILE%\.dotfiles\oh-my-zsh\theme\materialshellelectro.zsh.theme
    

12. Generate SSH Key

    Just Google How to Generate Your SSH Key :)

    Save it On

    %USERPROFILE%\.ssh
    

13. Installing Laravel Dev Dependencies

• Install PHP 7

  always update and upgrade before installing new Packages

  apt-get install php7.0 # Needed by Laravel
  apt-get install php7.0-mbstring # Needed by Laravel 
  apt-get install php7.0-mysql # Needed for Mysql
  apt-get install php7.0-xml # Needed for phpunit
  apt-get install php7.0-zip # Needed by Composer
  

• PHP Modules Optional

  apt-get install php-redis
  apt-get install php-xdebug
  

  To Check if You Have The Following Modules : php -m

• Install Composer as root

  apt-get install unzip
  cd ~
  curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php
  

  Replace the String for Installer Signature (SHA-384) at this pubkeys

  php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'aa96f26c2b67226a324c27919f1eb05f21c248b987e6195cad9690d5c1ff713d53020a02ac8c217dbf90a7eacc9d141d') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
  php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
  

  Change User to you Zsh user then invoke composer command to create a .composer folder and change ownership of .composer folder

  su <username>
  composer
  sudo chown -R $USER $HOME/.composer
  

  Check the Settings of Composer if Correct

  curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --check
  

  if You need to Disable/Enable xdebug

  phpdismod xdebug
  phpennmod xdebug
  

  You need to configure this for both user

  composer self-update --update-keys
  

  You need to get the Keys here pubkeys

  and paste the Value in the Terminal to Set it up

• Install Laravel Installer

  composer global require "laravel/installer"
  

  We already have the path added in our Config So the Path is Available Already We Have alias of laravel available to our Use

  laravel new blog
  

  This will Create a New Laravel Project Much Faster Using Cache

• Optimize Speed of Composer with Pretissimo

  Best Use if you Have High Download Speed you can set higher Concurrency default is 6

  composer global require "hirak/prestissimo:^0.3"
  

  We have alias of newapp

  newapp laravel
  

  This will Create a New Laravel Project with benchmark

• NodeJS

  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
  sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
  

  Check if it is Installed

  node -v
  npm -v
  

• Gulp

  npm install --global gulp-cli
  

  Check if Installed Globally

  gulp -v
  

• Webpack

  npm install --global webpack
  

• Yarn

  curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
  echo "deb http://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
  

  Check if Installed

  yarn -V
  

• Install ZSH

  apt-get update
  apt-get upgrade
  apt-get install zsh
  

• Install Oh-My-Zsh

  su <zshuser>
  git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh
  chsh -s /bin/zsh
  

  By Default if You Added our Zshrc config file It will already Use ZSH as the default Shell everytime we log in using our Zsh User

• Installing Vim Plugins

  if You already have copied our plugins.vim config and vimrc

  vim
  ,ep
  :PluginInstall
  

• Refining Our Search

  Install Ack and Exuberant Tag

  apt-get install exuberant-ctags
  apt-get install ack-grep
  

  We have aliases for ctags , TagsInit

  Ackrc can be defined per project or use our Global ackrc file that we added in our User ~/.ackrc

• Install VS Code Insiders As Our Default Text Editor

  https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders
  

  We Have alias code ready to be used in both bash and cmd terminal

• Install ConEmu to Decorate Our CMD terminal

  This will Give Us the Ability to Use Ctrl ` (backtick) to toggle Terminal Globally

  Very Useful Short Cut Key

  Set Up Settings

  • Colorscheme = Ubuntu
  • Default Term = Force ConEmu as Default Terminal for Console Applications
  • Windows Size = Maximized
  • Quake Style = 120 ms, Quake style slide down , autohide on focus lose
  • Add task for mintty , you can also make this as default task when conemu is run!

  *%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe /bin/wslbridge -t /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/zsh -l -new+console:d:%USERPROFILE%
  

  • Tab Bar is Auto Show (Only Show if you Have 2 or more Tabs)
  • Status Bar Removed (Make it Minimal as Possible)
  • Set Font DejaVuSansMonoForPowerline NF