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Like the Mac, Windows requires you to run Linux in a virtual machine, and Vagrant/Virtualbox are a great choice!

TODO:
- Other pre-requisites?
- Install vagrant and virtualbox on Windows
- Clone the repo and vagrant up
- Test
You can install VirtualBox and Vagrant via [Chocolatey](http://chocolatey.org)

```cmd
> choco install virtualbox
> choco install vagrant
```

Now you can start the environment:

```cmd
> git clone git@github.com:thehackerati/node-app-template.git
> cd node-app-template
> vagrant plugin install vagrant-docker-compose
> vagrant up
```

You'll be prompted to login using an account with admin privileges on your host machine to enable network synchronization of the source tree on your host machine with the Vagrant VM.

**Note**: Windows has a 4096 character limit on file paths. This is important to note this restriction since node_modules constantly exceed this amount. The solution is to flatten the node_modules directory (a step which is included in this codebase).

### Linux Pre-requisites

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# Install development and debugging tools
RUN npm install nodemon -g && \
npm install grunt-cli -g
npm install grunt-cli -g && \
npm install flatten-packages -g

# Use changes to package.json to force Docker not to use the cache
# when we change our application's nodejs dependencies:
ADD package.json /tmp/app/package.json
RUN cd /tmp/app && npm install
RUN cd /tmp/app && npm install && flatten-packages

WORKDIR /src/app

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