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Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks

By : Will Fuqua
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Book Image

Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks

5 (1)
By: Will Fuqua

Overview of this book

Windows Terminal is a new and open-source command-line application for Windows 10, built for the Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and more. It's fast, modern, and configurable thanks to its GPU-accelerated rendering, excellent UTF-8 support, and JSON-based configurability, and this book can help you learn how to leverage these features. You’ll start by learning the benefits of Windows Terminal and its open-source development, as well as how to use the built-in tabs, panes, and key bindings to build your own efficient terminal workflows. After you’ve mastered Windows Terminal, this book shows how to use and configure PowerShell Core and the Windows Subsystem for Linux within Windows Terminal. You’ll maximize your productivity using powerful tools such as PSReadLine for PowerShell and ZSH on Linux, and discover useful tips and tricks for common developer tools like Git and SSH. Finally, you’ll see how Windows Terminal can be used in common development and DevOps tasks, such as developing frontend JavaScript applications and backend REST APIs, and managing cloud-based systems like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. By the end of this book, you'll not only be well-versed with Windows Terminal, but also have learned how to effectively use shells like PowerShell Core and ZSH to become proficient at the command line.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal
5
Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells
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Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

Chapter 12: Building REST APIs with C# and Windows Terminal

In this chapter, we'll build a REST API and show how Windows Terminal can be an important tool in our workflow. Similar to the previous chapter, where we set up Windows Terminal for our frontend development, this chapter will show how to use Windows Terminal to accelerate our backend development.

A REST API is a popular type of server-side application. These applications are compatible with a wide range of other technologies, such as mobile apps, client-side web applications, and embedded devices. We will create a simple REST API that returns random weather forecasts.

We'll select C# as our programming language, running on the .NET platform. As we progress through the chapter, we'll set up .NET platform tools for Windows Terminal that make our lives easier and development more efficient. We'll learn how to experiment with C# in the terminal, as well as how to efficiently create, build, run, and test...