Scripts won't run on Windows

[frederikwerner]

I am trying to contribute to the Core Extension. Since I am a Windows user, I have a very mixed experience running the provided scripts. Specifically, I've run into those issues so far:

• Regarding the Sandbox, which I managed to get running eventually:The webpack.config.js config file contains paths like https://github.com/adobe/reactor-extension-core/blob/ac83ca7c6a7cbbd575477cf79c75738654fe626c/webpack.config.js#L110, https://github.com/adobe/reactor-extension-core/blob/ac83ca7c6a7cbbd575477cf79c75738654fe626c/webpack.config.js#L128, and https://github.com/adobe/reactor-extension-core/blob/ac83ca7c6a7cbbd575477cf79c75738654fe626c/webpack.config.js#L80, which contain the wrong type of slashes to run under windows. This causes a ton of error messages to appear and prevents the Sandbox from starting.
• Both the Linter and Tests also won't run. I haven't managed to get those running as of now.
• Probably other scripts are affected as well, but I haven't yet got to try those.

Expected Behaviour

Running npm run sandbox, npm run lint, npm run test start the sandbox, linter, or tests and return a result.

Actual Behaviour

A ton of errors showing up and the scripts fail.

Reproduce Scenario (including but not limited to)

Follow installation instructions on https://github.com/adobe/reactor-extension-core#readme running Windows.

Steps to Reproduce

Run any of the mentioned scripts on windows

Platform and Version

Windows 10

Sample Code that illustrates the problem

Logs taken while reproducing problem

[thebenrob]

This is all fair and true, but we have chosen not to prioritize running the open-source tools on a Windows machine. They all run on Macs and all the various flavors of *nix. If a Windows machine is all you have access too, I'd suggest looking into the Windows Subsystem for Linux (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10).

[frederikwerner]

Oh, really? That comes as a total surprise to me. I would have expected a note in the readme pointing towards this decision, which would have saved me a weekend of trying to get things to run.