Miscellaneous Jest Issues/Workarouds II

My brother recently installed Jest on his Windows machine and alerted me that there were some problems that he encountered when using Visual Studio 2013 Express to compile some of the requirements. Check out his full post on what he did to resolve (tldr: Install Express 2012 and update the GYP_MSVS_VERSION environment variable).

This does make me wonder how this whole process works on the newly released Visual Studio Community edition…