Tag: Windows

Expo on Codespaces
What will I need?
- GitHub account (free individual accounts have 60 hours of free Codespaces each month).
- Expo account.
- Expo Go app installed on your device.
- A little knowledge of the command line and React programming.
How long will it take?

About ten minutes.

Lets give it a go!

Create a new Codespace using the blank template:

Once initalised, create an empty Expo React App (select (y)es when prompted):
```
npx create-expo-app example
```
Install the expo-cli command line tool globally:
```
npm install -g expo-cli
```
Change into your example project’s folder and edit App.js, maybe adding an image or whatever, before updating packages:
```
cd example
npm update
```
Login to your Expo account from the command line:

Create an account with Expo and login using the expo login command.

Expo-cli supports tunnelling, a proxy URL accesible from any device over the Internet, using ngrok.
```
expo start --tunnel
```
After installing the requested library (@expo/ngrok@^4.1.0), you should see a QR code:

Open the Expo Go app on your device, login, and then scan the QR code. The app will bundle and be available on your device.

Further reading
March 3, 2023
No Internet access in WSL

Windows might generate a /etc/resolv.conf with an incorrect nameserver while installing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

It’s a quick fix – edit /etc/resolv.conf and change the nameserver (Google’s is 8.8.8.8).

To prevent it being overwritten, create or edit /etc/wsl.conf adding the option generateResolvConf = false.

October 9, 2022
Windows Store missing

Windows Store is never installed when I do a clean install of Windows 11. No idea why. The easiest solution is to run Xbox, and you’ll see:

Click “Fix them in settings”:

Install Microsoft Store.

September 25, 2022