Troubleshoot dev environment on Windows

Running `$npm install` works well on Mac and Linux, but there are some errors when attempting to run it on Windows.

In particular, when trying to run `$npm install` in PowerShell or Git Bash for Windows, the command errors out due to Python not being installed. Once the user installs Python, it then errors out indicating that Visual Studio (not VSCode) is not installed on the system.

We need to investigate this and get it installing (and running tests) cleaning in a Windows environment.