pinafore/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to Pinafore

Caveats

Please note that this project is very beta right now, and I'm not in a good position to accept large PRs for big new features.

I'm making my code open-source for the sake of transparency and because it's the right thing to do, but I'm hesitant to start nurturing a community because of all that entails.

So I may not be very responsive to PRs or issues. Thanks for understanding.

Building

To build Pinafore for production:

npm install
npm run build
PORT=4002 npm start

Now Pinafore is running at localhost:4002.

Development

To run a dev server with hot reloading:

npm run dev

Now it's running at localhost:4002.

Linting

Pinafore uses JavaScript Standard Style.

Lint:

npm run lint

Automatically fix most linting issues:

npx standard --fix

Testing

Run integration tests, using headless Chrome by default:

npm test

Run tests for a particular browser:

BROWSER=chrome npm run test-browser
BROWSER=chrome:headless npm run test-browser
BROWSER=firefox npm run test-browser
BROWSER=firefox:headless npm run test-browser
BROWSER=safari npm run test-browser
BROWSER=edge npm run test-browser

Testing in development mode

In separate terminals:

1. Run a Mastodon dev server:

npm run run-mastodon

2. Run a Pinafore dev server:

npm run dev

3. Run a debuggable TestCafé instance:

npx testcafe --hostname localhost --skip-js-errors --debug-mode firefox tests/spec

If you want to export the current data in the Mastodon instance as canned data, so that it can be loaded later, run:

npm run backup-mastodon-data

Writing tests

Tests use TestCafé. The tests have a naming convention:

• 0xx-test-name.js: tests that don't modify the Mastodon database (post, delete, follow, etc.)
• 1xx-test-name.js: tests that do modify the Mastodon database

In principle the 0- tests don't have to worry about clobbering each other, whereas the 1- ones do.