Mention uv for the initial install in CONTRIBUTING.md (#13595)

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -50,37 +50,67 @@ please refer to this
 
 Note that some tests require extra setup steps to install the required dependencies.
 
-### Linux/Mac OS/WSL
+<table>
+<tr>
+  <td>Linux / macOS / WSL</td>
+  <td>
+
+  On Linux and macOS, you will be able to run the full test suite on Python
+  3.9-3.12.
+  To install the necessary requirements, run the following commands from a
+  terminal window:
+
+  ```bash
+  $ python3 -m venv .venv
+  $ source .venv/bin/activate
+  (.venv)$ pip install -U pip
+  (.venv)$ pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
+  ```
+
+  </td>
+</tr>
+<tr><!-- disables zebra striping --></tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>Windows</td>
+  <td>
+
+  Run the following commands from a Windows terminal to install all requirements:
+
+  ```powershell
+  > python -m venv .venv
+  > .venv\Scripts\activate
+  (.venv) > pip install -U pip
+  (.venv) > pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
+  ```
+
+  To be able to run pytype tests, you'll also need to install it manually
+as it's currently excluded from the requirements file:
 
-On Linux and Mac OS, you will be able to run the full test suite on Python
-3.9-3.12.
-To install the necessary requirements, run the following commands from a
-terminal window:
+  ```powershell
+  (.venv) > pip install -U pytype
+  ```
 
-```bash
-$ python3 -m venv .venv
-$ source .venv/bin/activate
-(.venv)$ pip install -U pip
-(.venv)$ pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
-```
+  </td>
+</tr>
+<tr><!-- disables zebra striping --></tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>Using uv</td>
+  <td>
 
-### Windows
+  If you already have [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) installed, you can simply replace the commands above with:
 
-Run the following commands from a Windows terminal to install all requirements:
+  ```shell
+  uv venv
+  uv pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
+  ```
 
-```powershell
-> python -m venv .venv
-> .venv\Scripts\activate
-(.venv) > pip install -U pip
-(.venv) > pip install -r "requirements-tests.txt"
-```
+  ```shell
+  uv pip install -U pytype
+  ```
 
-To be able to run pytype tests, you'll also need to install it manually
-as it's currently excluded from the requirements file:
-
-```powershell
-(.venv) > pip install -U pytype
-```
+  </td>
+</tr>
+</table>
 
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