filer/CONTRIBUTING.md

How to Contribute

The best way to get started is to read through the Getting Started and Example sections before having a look through the open issues. Some of the issues are marked as good first bug, but feel free to contribute to any of the issues there, or open a new one if the thing you want to work on isn't there yet. If you would like to have an issue assigned to you, please send me a message and I'll update it.

Setup

To get a working build system do the following:

npm install

Next, make sure you have installed Chrome and Firefox, which are needed for running headless versions of the tests with npm test.

Tests

Tests are written using Mocha and Chai. There are a number of ways to run the tests. The preferred way is:

npm test

This will do a build, run the linting, start a server, and load the tests into headless versions of Chrome and Firefox.

If you want more control over how tests are run, you can use other scripts:

• Linting is done via npm run lint or npm run eslint, both of which will run eslint on the src and tests directories. You can also use npm run lint:fix or npm run eslint:fix, which will run eslint with --fix on the src and tests directories, automatically fixing minor issues. Linting is run by default as part of npm test

• In headless versions of Chrome and Firefox using npm test. A report at the end will tell you what happened with each browser. Browser tests are preferred because they also test our providers (e.g., IndexedDB). They do take longer to run. You can also use npm run karma-mocha-firefox or npm run karma-mocha-chrome to run the tests in only one of the two headless browsers.

• In node.js using the Memory provider using npm run test:node. These run much faster, but don't run all tests (e.g., providers, watches).

• If you need to debug browser tests, or want to run them in a different browser, use npm run test:manual, which will start a server and you can point your browser to http://localhost:1234. Running the tests this way will also automatically watch your files, and hot-reload your code and tests, which is useful for debugging and trial/error testing.

• If you need to debug node.js test runs, you can do so using npm run test:node-debug. Then, open Chrome and browse to chrome://inspect and click on your tests in the inspector. The easiest way to get a breakpoint is to manually add a debugger keyword to your test code where you want the tests to stop.

Tip: you can add skip() to any it() or describe() in Mocha to skip a test, or only() to have only that test run. For example: describe.skip(...) or it.only(...).

• If you want to run migration tests separate from unit tests, use npm run test:migrations. Migration tests run at the end of a typical npm test run. If you need to create a new migration test, see tools/fs-image.js for details on how to generate a filesystem image, and tests/filesystems/images/README.md for more docs.

• If you want to manually generate coverage info for the tests, use npm run coverage. This is done automatically in Travis, so you shouldn't need to do it. You can see https://codecov.io/gh/filerjs/filer for detailed reports.

There are a number of configurable options for the test suite, which are set via query string params. First, you can choose which filer source to use (i.e., src/, dist/filer-test.js, dist/filer.js or dist/filer.min.js). The default is to use what is in /dist/filer-test.js, and you can switch to other versions like so:

• tests/index.html?filer-dist/filer.js
• tests/index.html?filer-dist/filer.min.js
• tests/index.html?filer-src/filer.js (from src)

Second, you can specify which provider to use for all non-provider specific tests (i.e., most of the tests). The default provider is Memory, and you can switch it like so:

• tests/index.html?filer-provider=memory
• tests/index.html?filer-provider=indexeddb

If you're writing tests, make sure you write them in the same style as existing tests, which are provider agnostic. See tests/lib/test-utils.js and how it gets used in various tests as an example.

Releases

In order to perform a release, you'll need commit access to the main Filer repo, as well as access to publish to Filer's npm module. To do a release:

1. Make sure you have a .env file, with your GITHUB_TOKEN included. See env.sample for more info on how to create one.
2. Login to the npm registry if you haven't already using npm login
3. Run npm run release. Releases are done interactively using release-it, and our config is defined in .release-it.json.