Today I was having to work on a React project on #Windows. This endeavour is cursed. So cursed, that I fear the best solution will be to use Docker.
For example, I created a .gitignore file in #PowerShell with:echo "node_modules/" > .gitignore
, which created a file containing the expected text.
But it didn't work, and then tried to stage 853 Node packages. Lost half an hour until discovering that this creates a file encoded as UTF-16LE, which #git can't read, and needs it encoded as UTF-8, which is what most other tools I've encountered write by default. .npmrc has the same problem.
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