nx/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to Nx

We would love for you to contribute to Nx! Read this document to see how to do it.

Got a Question?

We are trying to keep GitHub issues for bug reports and feature requests. Stack Overflow is a much better place to ask general questions about how to use Nx.

Found an Issue?

If you find a bug in the source code or a mistake in the documentation, you can help us by submitting an issue to our GitHub Repository. Even better, you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.

Building the Project

After cloning the project run: yarn.

After that run yarn build to build the bazel, nx, and schematics packages.

After that run yarn linknpm.

Running Unit Tests

To make sure your changes do not break any unit tests, run the following:

yarn test

You can also run yarn test:schematics and yarn test:nx to test the schematics and nx packages individually.

If you need to test only the collection/ngrx.spec.ts test [for example], you can use an optional $1 argument as follows:

yarn test:schematics schematics/src/collection/ngrx/ngrx

Running E2E Tests

To make sure you changes do not break any unit tests, run the following:

yarn e2e

Running e2e tests can take some time, so it is often useful to run a single test. You can do it as follows:

yarn e2e affected

Developing on Windows

To build Nx on Windows, you need to use WSL.

• Run yarn install in WSL. Yarn will compile several dependencies. If you don't run install in WSL, they will be compiled for Windows.
• Run yarn test:schematics and other commands in WSL.

Submission Guidelines

Submitting an Issue

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. Having a reproducible scenario gives us wealth of important information without going back & forth to you with additional questions like:

• version of Nx used
• version of Angular CLI used
• angular.json configuration
• version of Angular DevKit used
• 3rd-party libraries and their versions
• and most importantly - a use-case that fails

A minimal reproduce scenario using allows us to quickly confirm a bug (or point out coding problem) as well as confirm that we are fixing the right problem.

We will be insisting on a minimal reproduce scenario in order to save maintainers time and ultimately be able to fix more bugs. Interestingly, from our experience users often find coding problems themselves while preparing a minimal repository. We understand that sometimes it might be hard to extract essentials bits of code from a larger code-base but we really need to isolate the problem before we can fix it.

You can file new issues by filling out our issue form.

Submitting a PR

Please follow the following guidelines:

• Make sure unit tests pass
• Make sure e2e tests pass
• Make sure you run yarn format
• Update your commit message to follow the guidelines below

Commit Message Guidelines

Commit message should follow the following format:

type(scope): subject
BLANK LINE
body

Type

The type must be one of the following:

• build
• feat
• fix
• refactor
• style
• docs
• test

Scope

The scope must be one of the following:

• node - anything backend specific
• testing - anything related to jest or cypress
• frontend - anything angular specific
• nx - dependency management, basic workspace structure, etc

Subject

The subject must contain a description of the change.

Example

feat(schematics): add an option to generate lazy-loadable modules

`ng generate lib mylib --lazy` provisions the mylib project in tslint.json

Commitizen

To simplify and automate the process of commiting with this format, Nx is a Commitizen friendly repository, just do git add and execute yarn commit.

Migrations

Nx allows users to automatically upgrade to the newest version of the package. If you are introducing a change that would require the users to upgrade their workspace, add a migration to packages/schematics/migrations.

Migrations are named in the following fashion: YYYYMMDD-name.ts (e.g., 20171129-change-schema.ts).

The yarn nx-migrate command will run all the migrations after the one encoded in .angular-cli.json.