Published May 15, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT

Shekhar Vaidya is a veteran technology journalist and computer science engineer. He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ecosystems. Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech.

Developers build muscle memory around opening a terminal as soon as they open a project in a code editor like VS Code to run the project locally. For a long time, it was my routine as well. I would open VS Code, then immediately open a terminal window, and start typing the same command I had already run tens of times before. npm run dev for React frontends, uvicorn app:main for FastAPI, and go run main.go for Go backends and then Docker Compose and watch commands.…