I can use Visual Studio Code, on Windows, with a task runner like Webpack running under Ubuntu, monitoring for changes on the same filesystem. Here's why the Windows Linux Subsystem is so good: it's the best of both worlds. The only reason coding directly in Windows is suddenly so feasible is thanks to Microsoft’s work on the Windows Linux Subsystem, which gives you a fully-fledged Ubuntu install right at the command line - and it works surprisingly well. If you're interested in what hardware is worth using, I recommend the Surface Book 2 but have an ongoing series of laptop reviews here.
Last week I wrote about switching to Windows from Mac for good, and a number of people wrote in to me from one of two buckets:
