[Windows 10] --notify does not create a notification.

[StringEpsilon]

🐛 Bug Report

Running jest --notify does not create any notification on windows 10.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install jest on any windows 10 machine.
2. run any test suite with npx jest --notify

Expected behavior

A notification is shown, as described by the documentation:

Activates notifications for test results.

envinfo

  System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.16299
    CPU: [redacted]
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.14.0 - [redacted]
    Yarn: 1.17.3 - [redacted]
    npm: 6.13.4 - [redacted]
  npmPackages:
    jest: ^23.6.0 => 23.6.0

I also tested this with [email protected] which also doesn't show a notification.

[StringEpsilon]

Update: It works on the second try. I found out that node-notifier registers a new app with windows to be able to display the notification. See:

mikaelbr/node-notifier#144

I would not suspect any npm package to permanently alter my machine in such a way. Nor would I expect the option to be wonky in this particular fashion. You might want to warn people about that in the --notify documentation.

Edit: I also can't figure out how I can get rid of the entries in my start menu now :/

[SimenB]

Yeah, this is an upstream issue. It does seems like we should warn in the docs though, as you say. Mind sending a PR?

[StringEpsilon]

Something like this?

Activates notifications for test results. Good for when you don't want your consciousness to be able to focus on anything except JavaScript testing.
Beware: Jest uses node-notifier to display desktop notifications. On Windows, it creates a new start menu entry on the first use and not display the notification. Notifications will be properly displayed on subsequent runs.

[SimenB]

Yeah, that seems reasonable 👍

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