Setting up a dedicated dev directory is a life saver. Since all the data under this directory will be backed up using GitHub, you can safely configure your antivirus, cloud sync, or backup software to ignore it. This will help greatly reduce CPU, disk, and network utilization. As a full-stack developer, you're likely to be multitasking a lot, so avoiding unnecessary activity will have a net positive impact on performance, power, and data consumption on a daily basis, especially if your development environment is a laptop that is either resource starved or you wish to squeeze as much battery life as possible when you're on the move.
Creating a dev folder directly under the c:\ drive is very important, because ...
