Quickly Run NodeJS Demos in Vanilla Windows Sandbox featuring Scoop package manager
6 min readJan 1, 2021
TL;DR — this article describes how Windows Sandbox can be used to prepare a well known environment for demonstrations, tutorials, tests etc. Scoop is a great package manager for quickly installing Windows packages (Node runtime, Git client, VS Code editor, …) into the Sandbox. I have applied these concepts to a series of somewhat complex demos around the Playwright library — but the generic approach is applicable in many circumstances.