chchow / portable-vscode

portable-vscode

This Visual Studio Code setup is for development environment for my required tools, such as NodeJS, Angular development, Java, Maven builds and Git.

Steps to setup dev environment

1. Get required tools: Git, NodeJS, Java and Maven
2. Choose the terminal of your choice:
   a. Setup for command prompt
   b. Setup for powershell
   
3. Git to use Windows Credential Manager

1. Get Tools

VSCode: Download .zip https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=win32-x64-archive
Git: Download Git for Windows Portable ("thumbdrive edition") https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.30.0.windows.2/PortableGit-2.30.0.2-64-bit.7z.exe
NodeJS: Download Windows Binary version zip https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.15.4/node-v14.15.4-win-x64.zip
Java: Download JDK Windows x64 Compressed Archive version https://www.oracle.com/in/java/technologies/javase-jdk15-downloads.html#license-lightbox
Maven: Download Binary zip archive https://downloads.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.6.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.zip

1. Extract VSCode to portable-vscode directory
2. Extract Git, NodeJS, Java and Maven into portable-vscode/tools/ directory; naming them git, nodejs, jdk, maven

2a. Setup command prompt

1. Copy command-prompt/add-tools-to-cmd.bat to portable-vscode/tools/ directory
2. Copy command-prompt/settings.json settings to VSCode settings.
3. Start VSCode and open command prompt. Check if the tools versions appears or try by testing the commands

2b. Setup powershell

1. Copy powershell/settings.json settings to VSCode settings.
2. Start VSCode and open command prompt. Check if the tools working try by testing the commands

3. Git to use Windows Credential Manager

Copy .gitconfig either from powershell or command-prompt into C:\Users<user>\