Hey 🙂 If you accept feature requests
Hey 🙂 If you accept feature requests here - Windows support for containers local dev would be great! I tried running through WSL but the install / startup time was so slow I couldn't launch the dev server
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proper windows support is on our list, but its going to require a fair bit of work i think to support named pipes in our runtime (which is the reason we can't support it today), so it might be a way off.
it'll probably be easier getting this working for you in wsl though - what you mean by install/startup time? the image build? are you getting any errors?
@Emily | Workers thx for a prompt reply! got it
in short: it may be my inexperience, but when I tried to run the dev server through wsl:
- pnpm install took ~5 minutes
- pnpm dev didn't complete after similar time (I've canceled)
I've tried several times but then stopped simply because it was taking too long
I may be an exception but when switching from a Mac to Windows (+wsl) setup may work but it's definitely more involved / requires adaptation
For example
- in wsl networking mode didn't work right away due to VPN interference (it's my problem, but you get the idea)
- workerd had to be re-installed using linux build (hence the need for pnpm install)
May be I didn't setup WSL properly on my windows machine but in short in comparison to "native" dev experience on windows I couldn't get it to work and had to switch back to a mac