CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Thanks for your interest in improving plate! We are a community-driven project and welcome contributions of all kinds: from discussion to documentation to bugfixes to feature improvements.

Please review this document to help to streamline the process and save everyone's precious time.

Issues

No software is bug-free. So, if you got an issue, follow these steps:

• Search the issue list for current and old issues.
  • If you find an existing issue, please UPVOTE the issue by adding a "thumbs-up reaction". We use this to help prioritize issues!
• If none of that is helping, please create an issue.

Reproductions

The best way to help figure out an issue you are having is to produce a minimal reproduction using our CodeSandbox

Development Guide

Initial Setup

Yarn

This repo uses yarn workspaces, so you should install yarn as the package manager. See installation guide.

Clone

git clone https://github.com/udecode/plate.git

Install & Build

cd plate
yarn install
yarn g:build

Development

How to: Local dev watching file changes

To start the NextJS app locally, run:

yarn g:dev

How to: Local docs

To start the docusaurus app locally, run:

yarn docs:start 

To build the docusaurus app, run:

yarn docs:build 

How to: Create a plate package

Generate the package by answering the prompts:

yarn gen:package

• /src
  • plate plugin?
    • How to: Create a plate plugin
• packages/plate
  • edit package.json
    • add the package to dependencies
  • edit src/index.tsx
    • add export * from '@udecode/plate-x';

Once done with the package:

yarn install
yarn g:build

How to: Create an example

• Did you create a new package?
  • edit /config/aliases-plate.js
    • add '@udecode/plate-x': <package path from /packages>' to watch file changes
• Create an example app in /examples/src
• Once you've finished the example app:
  • go back to the root of the repository
  • run yarn gen:code to generate the sandpack files
• Create an example in the docs:
  • go to /docs/docs
    • create a new sandpack file for the demo using the generated files
    • create a new mdx file for the docs, importing the sandpack file
  • edit /docs/docs/sidebars.js
    • add the example doc so it appears in the sidebar

How to: Create a plate plugin

• create file createXPlugin.ts

  import { createPluginFactory } from '@udecode/plate-core';
  
  export const createXPlugin = createPluginFactory({
  
  });

• is node?

  • create file constants.ts

// for elements
export const ELEMENT_X = 'x';

// for marks
export const MARK_X = 'x';

• has node data?
  • create file types.ts

export interface TXElement extends TElement {

}

• is element?
  • add to plugin:

isElement: true

• is inline?
  • add to plugin:

isInline: true

• create the components in /components

• is void?

  • add to plugin:

isVoid: true

• go to createPlateUI
  • add the plugin component to components object

[ELEMENT_X]: XElement,

Run Linter

We use eslint as a linter for all code (including typescript code).

All you have to run is:

yarn g:lint --fix

Run unit tests

This command will list all the suites and options for running tests.

yarn g:build # only once

yarn g:test

The options for running tests can be selected from the cli or be passed to yarn g:test with specific parameters. Available modes include --watch, --coverage, and --runInBand, which will respectively run tests in watch mode, output code coverage, and run selected test suites serially in the current process.

Updating Tests

Before any contributions are submitted in a PR, make sure to add or update meaningful tests. A PR that has failing tests will be regarded as a “Work in Progress” and will not be merged until all tests pass. When creating new unit test files, the tests should adhere to a particular folder structure and naming convention, as defined below.

# Proper naming convention and structure for test files
+-- filename_to_test.spec.ts

When using slate-hyperscript, include this at the top of the file:

/** @jsx jsx */

import { jsx } from "@udecode/plate-test-utils";

jsx;

Example of input and output being an editor containing one paragraph:

const input = ((
  <editor>
    <hp>test</hp>
  </editor>
) as any) as PlateEditor;

const output = ((
  <editor>
    <hp>test</hp>
  </editor>
) as any) as PlateEditor;

it("should be", () => {
  expect(input).toEqual(output);
});

Release Guide

This section is for anyone wanting a release. The current release sequence is as follows:

• Commit your changes:
  • If you want to synchronize the exports, run yarn cti to automatically update the index files.
  • Lint, test, build should pass.
• Open a PR against main and add a changeset.
• To create a snapshot release, maintainers can comment a GitHub issue starting with /release:next.
• Merge the PR, triggering the bot to create a PR release.
• Review the final changesets.
• Merge the PR release, triggering the bot to release the updated packages on npm.

Pull Requests (PRs)

We welcome all contributions. There are many ways you can help us. This is few of those ways:

Before you submit a new PR, please run yarn g:prerelease. Do not submit a PR if tests are failing. If you need any help, the best way is to join slate's Slack and ask in the #plate channel.

You miss time/knowledge but still want to contribute? Just open a PR or a gist on Slack and we'll try to help.

Reviewing PRs

As a PR submitter, you should reference the issue if there is one, include a short description of what you contributed and, if it is a code change, instructions for how to manually test out the change. This is informally enforced by our PR template. If your PR is reviewed as only needing trivial changes (e.g. small typos etc), and you have commit access then you can merge the PR after making those changes.

As a PR reviewer, you should read through the changes and comment on any potential problems. If you see something cool, a kind word never hurts either! Additionally, you should follow the testing instructions and manually test the changes. If the instructions are missing, unclear, or overly complex, feel free to request better instructions from the submitter. Unless the PR is a draft, if you approve the review and there is no other required discussion or changes, you should also go ahead and merge the PR.

Issue Triage

If you are looking for a way to help the project, triaging issues is a great place to start. Here's how you can help:

Responding to questions

Q&A is a great place to help. If you can answer a question, it will help the asker as well as anyone who has a similar question. Also in the future if anyone has that same question they can easily find it by searching. If an issue needs reproduction, you may be able to guide the reporter toward one, or even reproduce it yourself using this technique.

Triaging issues

Once you've helped out on a few issues, if you'd like triage access you can help label issues and respond to reporters.

We use the following label scheme to categorize issues:

• type - bug, feature, dependencies, maintenance.
• area - plugin:x, plugin:list, plugin:common, ui, etc.
• status - needs reproduction, etc.

All issues should have a type label. dependencies is for keeping package dependencies up to date. maintenance is a catch-all for any kind of cleanup or refactoring.

They should also have one or more area/status labels. We use these labels to filter issues down so we can see all of the issues for a particular area, and keep the total number of open issues under control.

For example, here is the list of open, untyped issues. For more info see searching issues in the GitHub docs.

If an issue is a bug, and it doesn't have a clear reproduction that you have personally confirmed, label it needs reproduction and ask the author to try and create a reproduction, or have a go yourself.

Closing issues

• Duplicate issues should be closed with a link to the original.
• Unreproducible issues should be closed if it's not possible to reproduce them (if the reporter drops offline, it is reasonable to wait 2 weeks before closing).
• bugs should be closed when the issue is fixed and released.
• features, maintenances, should be closed when released or if the feature is deemed not appropriate.