Thank you for considering contributing to Swift-DocC-Render.
Please know that everyone is welcome to contribute to Swift-DocC-Render. Contributing doesn’t just mean submitting pull requests—there are many different ways for you to get involved, including answering questions on the Swift Forums, reporting or screening bugs, and writing documentation.
No matter how you want to get involved, we ask that you first learn what’s expected of anyone who participates in the project by reading the Swift Community Guidelines as well as our Code of Conduct.
This document focuses on how to contribute code and documentation to this repository.
By submitting a pull request, you represent that you have the right to license your
contribution to Apple and the community, and agree by submitting the patch that your
contributions are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license (see LICENSE.txt
).
Swift-DocC-Render is an open source project and we encourage contributions from the community.
Before contributing code or documentation to Swift-DocC-Render we encourage you to first create an issue on GitHub for a bug report or feature request. This will allow us to provide feedback on the proposed change. However, this is not a requirement. If your contribution is small in scope, feel free to open a PR without first creating an issue.
All changes to Swift-DocC-Render source must go through the PR review process before
being merged into the main
branch.
See the Code Contribution Guidelines below for
more details.
Note: requires Node.js v18 and npm v9.5. An easy way to set these up is to install nvm and run
nvm install
from within the Swift-DocC-Render repository. To use these versions as the default, add--default
to the installation command.
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Checkout this repository using:
git clone git@github.com:apple/swift-docc-render.git
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Navigate to the root of your cloned repository with:
cd swift-docc-render
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Install dependencies:
npm install
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Run a local server with hot reload at localhost:8080
You may want to set an http endpoint as a proxy to handle data requests while developing locally.
VUE_APP_DEV_SERVER_PROXY=https://localhost:8000 npm run serve
As an alternative you can just create a
.env.development.local
file on the root of the project to add theVUE_APP_DEV_SERVER_PROXY
env varible so you don't have to set it in thenpm run serve
script each time.
To build Swift-DocC-Render for deployment, run the command below. The output will be generated inside the dist
folder:
npm run build
Follow these steps to generate a documentation archive, set the path to your renderer and render locally your documentation using Swift-DocC-Render.
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Do your best to keep the git history easy to understand.
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Use informative commit titles and descriptions.
- Include a brief summary of changes as the first line.
- Describe everything that was added, removed, or changed, and why.
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All changes must go through the pull request review process.
When you're ready to have your change reviewed, please make sure you've completed the following requirements:
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Add Swift's license header to the new files.
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Add tests to cover any new functionality or to prevent regressions of a bug fix.
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Run the
npm run test
script and confirm that the unit test, lint and license header checks pass. -
Add source code documentation to all added coded that explains the new behavior.
When opening a pull request, please make sure to fill out the pull request template and complete all tasks mentioned there.
Your PR should mention the number of the GitHub issue issue your work is addressing (#NNN).
Most PRs should be against the main
branch. If your change is intended
for a specific release, you should also create a separate branch
that cherry-picks your commit onto the associated release branch.
All PRs will need approval from someone on the core team (someone with write access to the repository) before being merged.
Swift-DocC-Render is committed to maintaining a high level of code quality. Before opening a pull request, we ask that you:
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Run the full test suite and confirm that it passes.
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Write new tests to cover any changes you made.
Run the following script to:
npm run test
Run an individual unit test suite:
npm run test:unit tests/unit/path/to/spec.js
Run unit tests and watch for changes:
npm run test:unit:watch
To manually lint your code for style issues, you can run the ESLint suite:
npm run lint
If you want the linter to automatically fix the errors it finds, run:
npm run lint:fix
Unsure of where to begin contributing to Swift-DocC-Render? You can start by looking at
the bugs in the Swift-DocC-Render
issues list with the StarterBug
label on
GitHub.
Once you've found an issue to work on, follow the above instructions for Building Swift-DocC-Render.