We would love for you to contribute to Nest and help make it even better than it is today! As a contributor, here are the guidelines we would like you to follow:
- Code of Conduct
- Question or Problem?
- Issues and Bugs
- Feature Requests
- Submission Guidelines
- Coding Rules
- Commit Message Guidelines
Do not open issues for general support questions as we want to keep GitHub issues for bug reports and feature requests. You've got much better chances of getting your question answered on Stack Overflow where the questions should be tagged with tag nestjs-addons
.
Stack Overflow is a much better place to ask questions since:
- questions and answers stay available for public viewing so your question / answer might help someone else
- Stack Overflow's voting system assures that the best answers are prominently visible.
To save your and our time, we will systematically close all issues that are requests for general support and redirect people to Stack Overflow.
If you would like to chat about the question in real-time, you can reach out via [our gitter channel][gitter].
If you find a bug in the source code, you can help us by submitting an issue to our GitHub Repository. Even better, you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.
You can request a new feature by submitting an issue to our GitHub Repository. If you would like to implement a new feature, please submit an issue with a proposal for your work first, to be sure that we can use it. Please consider what kind of change it is:
- For a Major Feature, first open an issue and outline your proposal so that it can be
discussed. This will also allow us to better coordinate our efforts, prevent duplication of work,
and help you to craft the change so that it is successfully accepted into the project. For your issue name, please prefix your proposal with
[discussion]
, for example "[discussion]: your feature idea". - Small Features can be crafted and directly submitted as a Pull Request.
Before you submit an issue, please search the issue tracker, maybe an issue for your problem already exists and the discussion might inform you of workarounds readily available.
We want to fix all the issues as soon as possible, but before fixing a bug we need to reproduce and confirm it. In order to reproduce bugs we will systematically ask you to provide a minimal reproduction scenario using a repository or Gist. Having a live, reproducible scenario gives us wealth of important information without going back & forth to you with additional questions like:
- version of NestJS Addons - InMemory DB used
- 3rd-party libraries and their versions
- and most importantly - a use-case that fails
Unfortunately, we are not able to investigate / fix bugs without a minimal reproduction, so if we don't hear back from you we are going to close an issue that don't have enough info to be reproduced.
You can file new issues by filling out our new issue form.
Before you submit your Pull Request (PR) consider the following guidelines:
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Search GitHub for an open or closed PR that relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort.
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Fork the nestjs-addons/in-memory-db repo.
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Make your changes in a new git branch:
git checkout -b my-fix-branch master
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Create your patch, including appropriate test cases.
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Follow our Coding Rules.
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Run the full Nest test suite, as described in the [developer documentation][dev-doc], and ensure that all tests pass.
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Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message that follows our commit message conventions. Adherence to these conventions is necessary because release notes are automatically generated from these messages.
git commit -a
Note: the optional commit
-a
command line option will automatically "add" and "rm" edited files. -
Push your branch to GitHub:
git push origin my-fix-branch
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In GitHub, send a pull request to
nestjs-addons/in-memory-db:master
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If we suggest changes then:
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Make the required updates.
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Re-run the Nest test suites to ensure tests are still passing.
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Rebase your branch and force push to your GitHub repository (this will update your Pull Request):
git rebase master -i git push -f
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That's it! Thank you for your contribution!
After your pull request is merged, you can safely delete your branch and pull the changes from the main (upstream) repository:
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Delete the remote branch on GitHub either through the GitHub web UI or your local shell as follows:
git push origin --delete my-fix-branch
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Check out the master branch:
git checkout master -f
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Delete the local branch:
git branch -D my-fix-branch
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Update your master with the latest upstream version:
git pull --ff upstream master
To ensure consistency throughout the source code, keep these rules in mind as you are working:
- All features or bug fixes must be tested by one or more specs (unit-tests).