Welcome to the contributing guide for DocSearch!
If this guide does not contain what you are looking for and thus prevents you from contributing, don't hesitate to leave a message on the Discord or to open an issue.
Opening an issue is very effective way to contribute because many users might also be impacted. We'll make sure to fix it quickly if it's technically feasible and doesn't have important side effects for other users.
Before reporting an issue, first check that there is not an already open issue for the same topic using the issues page. Don't hesitate to thumb up an issue that corresponds to the problem you have.
Another element that will help us go faster at solving the issue is to provide a reproducible test case. We recommend to use this CodeSandbox template.
For any code contribution, you need to:
- Fork and clone the project
- Create a new branch for what you want to solve (fix/issue-number, feat/name-of-the-feature)
- Make your changes
- Open a pull request
Then:
- A team member will review the pull request
- Automatic checks will be run
When every check is green and a team member approves, your contribution is merged! 🚀
This project follows the conventional changelog approach. This means that all commit messages should be formatted using the following scheme:
type(scope): description
In most cases, we use the following types:
fix
: for any resolution of an issue (identified or not)feat
: for any new featurerefactor
: for any code change that neither adds a feature nor fixes an issuedocs
: for any documentation change or additionchore
: for anything that is not related to the library itself (doc, tooling)
Even though the scope is optional, we try to fill it in as it helps us better understand the impact of a change.
Finally, if your work is based on an issue on GitHub, please add in the body of the commit message "fix #1234" if it solves the issue #1234 (read "Closing issues using keywords").
Some examples of valid commit messages (used as first lines):
- fix(searchbox): add
type
input property- chore(deps): update dependency rollup-plugin-babel to v3.0.7
- fix(modal): increase default height
- docs(contributing): reword release section
To run this project, you will need:
yarn run release
It will create a pull request for the next release. When it's reviewed, approved and merged, then CircleCI will automatically publish it to npm.