During the initial setup of the project on windows using WSL, I encountered a couple of problems that required modifications:

1. npm package manager issue:
   The npm package manager was failing to download/install packages and I discovered that the firewall was blocking its network requests. Disabling the firewall resolved the issue, confirming that a specific setting was interfering with npm. I still need to identify the exact firewall rule causing this problem.

2. data download scirpt:
   I also had to modify one of the data population script. Specifically, I changed the shebang from #!/bin/sh -eu to #!/bin/bash -eu and ran the dos2unix tool on the file to convert windows-style line endings to unix-style, ensuring the script executed correctly on wsl.