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Writing code on Mac or Linux but testing on Windows with hot-reloading

As a developer, I often want to test my code on Windows, but don't have a Windows box handy. This tutorial demonstrates how to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to make provisioning Windows test instances easier. In this post, I also provide a working Packer template and Terraform configuration to deploy your own Windows test instance, as well as instructions for mounting a local folder over RDP.

Writing code on Mac or Linux but testing on Windows with hot-reloading
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This article covers techniques for writing code on Mac or Linux but testing on Windows with hot reloading capabilities. It includes tools and configurations to make provisioning Windows test instances easier.

In this post, I also provide a working Packer template and Terraform configuration to deploy your own Windows test instance, as well as instructions for mounting a local folder over RDP.

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Zachary Proser

Applied AI at WorkOS. Formerly Pinecone, Cloudflare, Gruntwork. Full-stack — databases, backends, middleware, frontends — with a long streak of infrastructure-as-code and cloud systems.

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