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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
12
Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

Running unit tests with Windows Terminal

We almost introduced a bug in the last section, but caught it at the last minute. We were lucky; we might not catch the next bug. Let's set up some unit tests that will run automatically and help catch future bugs.

We'll be running our unit tests in a new project. Navigate to our App directory and create a new test project using the following command:

dotnet new xunit -o App.Tests

This will create a new project for our tests, next to our App.WebApi project. The folder structure should now look like this:

Figure 12.11 – Our generated project structure

We'll want to tell the App.Tests project how to find our App.WebApi project, so it can test the functionality inside. Navigate to the top-level App folder, and run the following command:

dotnet add App.Tests reference App.WebApi 

Next, in Visual Studio Code, open the App.Tests/UnitTest1.cs file, where we'll be writing our automated...