-If the installation of dependencies or developing on Windows in general gives you headaches, Windows 10 provides a great alternative: [Windows Subsystem for Linux](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about). It lets you run most command-line tools, utilities, and applications in a GNU/Linux environment directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine. In the above scenario you would download e.g. Ubuntu, open the terminal, [install Node](https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions), and run `sudo apt-get install build-essential` in the terminal — and the compilation works way more reliable. Please note that you have to delete any existing `node_modules` folder in your project and re-install the dependencies in your WSL environment.
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