Chocolatey - From nothing to a Dev environment in less than 10 minutes in Windows

Victor Ferreira
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

There is a package manager for Windows called Chocolatey. To install it, you run a simple command line and in a few seconds you are good to go.

Make sure you are running the command shell as an administrator. Choose the correct command to your case and when it finishes downloading and installing, run the choco command to check if everything went well.

Installing Node.js or Git is as simple as running another command line. You can get a list of available packages here. Check the number of downloads to pick the best choice for what you need. See an example of how to install Node.js below:

C:\> choco install nodejs.install

Eventually you’ll need to restart the command shell to execute choco or the other applications you installed with it.

That’s it! With chocolatey you can go from an “empty” hard drive to a complete development environment in less than 10 minutes.

Victor Ferreira

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