Setup development environment on Windows 7 碎碎念

自从有了mac，我的windows本早已沦为游戏机。鉴于这次只带了windows小本回国，于是只好开始在windows电脑上配置开发环境。

Preparation:

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Tools:

  • Cygwin64
  • SourceTree
  • Lantern vpn (in order to access Google…)

Install Cygwin64

  1. Download Cygwin64 from https://cygwin.com/install.html
  2. Run the execution file to install.
  3. Select ‘download and install’
  4. Choose a download url
  5. Select packages want to install, such as git, python, php etc…
  6. Done

Install Node:

  1. Download node from https://nodejs.org/
  2. Run the installer and follow instructions
  3. Open command prompt, check ‘node -v’ and ‘npm -v’

Install MongoDB

  1. Download MongoDB from https://www.mongodb.com/download-center?jmp=nav#community. I choose Windows Vista without SSL support.
  2. Run the installer. By default it will be installed to C:\Mongodb
  3. Create folder data under Mongodb and create folder db under folder data.
  4. Navigate to bin folder under Mongodb. Run ‘mongod –dbpath “c:\MongoDB\data\db” –storageEngine=mmapv1’ and check if it successfully starts mongodb.

Note: Only get it working using command prompt. When using Cygwin64, it throws error ‘cannot find command mongod’.