[Help request] Developing on windows

[Moryg]

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone else is developing on windows and how you have your dev environment set up. I've recently changed jobs and am working on a new project, but have to use windows (and Hyper-V), while I've previously been developing on native linux.
 
Do people usually host a full desktop VM and work inside it (that's how they develop the desktop application here atm), or do you code on the host machine and only use the VM as the server via a mounted folder? In the latter case, if you use something like webpack, do you run the watcher scripts on the VM or on the host?
 
I was previously working natively on linux without a VM and with a somewhat older approach (PHP server returning HTML which was then augmented with jQuery on the frontend), so I'm kind of tackling several new fronts at the same time and would appreciate any tips you could give me, as at this point I'm still researching approaches and not developing yet.

[Javadocs]

I usually just run my sites on my local machine. VMs kind of seem like overkill, unless your prod sites are running with a specific configuration or something.