Support Windows

[cinxmo]

Framework does not currently support Windows (though some users have had success with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). It should work, and we are working on it.

[mbostock]

I am almost 100% sure that the CLI will not work on win32 as currently implemented. A big issue is that we often use join to create URLs, but only on POSIX systems will that use forward slash as the delimiter. To support win32 we will need to be very careful to distinguish file paths from URL paths, whereas today we often treat the two as the same.

Note that we can continue to use Node’s path module to construct URLs, but we will need to import from node:path/posix instead of node:path as appropriate. See Windows vs. POSIX.

[Fil]

Installing windows on my machine with UTM/qemu, then installing node (and VSCode), I got the dev server to run. As the screenshot shows, there is an issue in Edge on the left, and a problem in the dev server on the right. I could't get anything else to work, because powershell has no “rm” command, so the test and build commands fail immediately. I couldn't endure much more and gave up at that point.

[mootari]

I'd probably focus on making sure that it runs well with WSL?

[mbostock]

Punting until GA future.

[mbostock]

We don’t currently support Windows, but you can use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about