The tests are at least running!

I'm testing on an old Windows laptop (~2014 HP ProBook 650) that I wiped and updated to the latest Windows 10 version. These were the steps I then followed:

Install VSCode.

Install Git for Windows. (I generally prefer MSYS2 but wanted to stay closer to what most people would run.)

• Select "Use Git and optional Unix tools..." option.
• Select "Check out as-is, commit as-is" option.

Do a rudimentary Git setup (copy .gitconfig from GitHub etc.).

Install ConEmu, a sane terminal.

Install Docker Toolbox.

Install Node.js.

The I remembered that Scoop exists so I installed that.

Install PHP (v7.3 at the time of writing):

scoop install php-nts

Enable PHP extension by following this: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Custom-PHP-configuration.

Install Composer:

scoop install composer

Then I was able to start the Docker Quickstart Terminal, configure port forwarding and folder sharing (see updated dev-setup.md in a13ba8f) and run tests. Unit tests passed:

npm run tests:unit

Great, I'm getting consistent results with Docker for Mac, #1400 (comment):

It took about half an hour, maybe a bit more, which is again quite similar to what I'm seeing on Mac, currently (I can no longer reproduce the 10-minute runs, see #1400 (comment)).

Waiting is implemented in #1401 if that was part of the problem...

@pavelevap, if you have more tips or notes to share, feel free to add them, otherwise, I'm going to merge this later today.

Also worth noting is that Travis now supports Windows so it would be a good idea to run tests on Windows automatically (though it most likely won't be via Toolbox). See #1259 (comment).

I've updated the section on Docker Toolbox performance after my recent experiments in #1401 (comment).

On the laptop (2014 HP ProBook 650), I upgraded from Docker Toolbox to Docker Desktop (had to completely reinstall the machine as Hyper-V was failing to activate after VirtualBox had been previously installed 🙄).

The tests ran for a much more reasonable 16 minutes - it was 37 before and the best times we're getting on powerful MacBooks or on TravisCI are about 11 minutes. So not too bad.