More detailed contribution guidance

[hucknz]

Description

Hi, I'd like to contribute a widget but I'm struggling with the contribution process, particularly around local builds for testing.

I have read through the Developer Guides documentation and there's great information around the IDE, etc. but I can't see anything about how to build locally.

I've also looked through the github issues and can see that building locally seems to be discouraged and there's not much in the way of guidance on how to do that.

I've also tried unpicking the github actions to do my own build but am encountering a lot of errors during that process and when the build does succeed my widget isn't included in the build.

I'm not a frontend developer so this is a little outside my normal world and I'm really struggling to get a local build going so I can test my widget out before I contribute a PR. Is there any guidance you can provide, or additions to the developer documentation, that can help me get started?

Priority

Medium (Would be very useful)

[github-actions]

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[manuel-rw]

Hi, this is the wrong repository. You should open issues for documentation in homarr-labs/documentation.
I agree, documentation around local development could be better. I strongly recommend you to develop in the new version of Homarr (see #1993), available at homarr-labs/homarr. This code repository will be archived soon.
If you need help for development, I also suggest you to join the Discord.
The developer guides will not be updated for <1.0 because that version will not live for much longer. It will be updated as soon 1.0 is released.
Let me know if this answers your question and if you need further assistance.