Thank you for investing your time in contributing to our project!
Please read our Code of Conduct to keep our community approachable and respectable.
This guide will provide an overview of the contribution workflow, including opening an issue, creating a pull request (PR), and the review and merge process.
To familiarize yourself with the project, please read the README. Here are some resources to help you get started with open-source contributions:
- Finding ways to contribute to open-source on GitHub
- Setting up Git
- GitHub flow
- Collaborating with pull requests
- Getting started with Tauri
- pnpm CLI
If you come across an issue or have a feature request for Spacedrive, please search if a related issue has already been reported. If no relevant issue exists, you can open a new issue using the appropriate issue form.
To find an issue that interests you, you can browse through our existing issues and use the available labels
to narrow down your search (See Labels for more information). As a general rule, if you find an issue you want to work on, you are welcome to open a PR with a fix.
This project uses Cargo and pnpm. Make sure you have them installed before proceeding.
To make changes locally, follow these steps:
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
- Navigate to the project directory:
cd spacedrive
- For Linux or MacOS users, run:
./scripts/setup.sh
- This will install FFmpeg and any other required dependencies for Spacedrive to build.
- For Windows users, run the following command in PowerShell:
.\scripts\setup.ps1
- This will install pnpm, LLVM, FFmpeg, and any other required dependencies for Spacedrive to build.
- Install dependencies:
pnpm i
- Prepare the build:
pnpm prep
(This will run all necessary codegen and build required dependencies)
To quickly run only the desktop app after prep
, you can use:
-
pnpm tauri dev
If necessary, the webview devtools can be opened by pressing
Ctrl + Shift + I
(Linux and Windows) andCommand + Option + I
(Mac) in the desktop app.Also, the react-devtools can be launched using
pnpm dlx react-devtools
. However, it must be executed before starting the desktop app for it qto connect.
To run the web app:
pnpm dev:web
This will start both the server and web interface. You can launch these individually if you'd prefer:
cargo run -p sd-server
(server)pnpm web dev
(web interface)
To run the landing page:
pnpm landing dev
If you encounter any issues, ensure that you are using the following versions of Rust, Node and Pnpm:
- Rust version: 1.70.0
- Node version: 18.17
- Pnpm version: 8.0.0
After cleaning out your build artifacts using pnpm clean
, git clean
, or cargo clean
, it is necessary to re-run the setup-system
script.
Make sure to read the guidelines to ensure that your code follows a similar style to ours.
To run the mobile app:
- Install Android Studio for Android and Xcode for iOS development.
- Run
./scripts/setup.sh mobile
- This will set up most of the dependencies required to build the mobile app.
- Make sure you have NDK 23.1.7779620 and CMake installed in Android Studio.
- Run the following commands:
pnpm android
(runs on Android Emulator)pnpm ios
(runs on iOS Emulator)pnpm start
(runs the metro bundler)
Once you have finished making your changes, create a pull request (PR) to submit them.
- Fill out the "Ready for review" template to help reviewers understand your changes and the purpose of your PR.
- If you are addressing an existing issue, don't forget to link your PR to the issue.
- Enable the checkbox to allow maintainer edits so that the branch can be updated for merging.
- Once you submit your PR, a team member will review your proposal. They may ask questions or request additional information.
- You may be asked to make changes before the PR can be merged, either through suggested changes or pull request comments. You can apply suggested changes directly through the UI. For other changes, you can make them in your fork and commit them to your branch.
- As you update your PR and apply changes, mark each conversation as resolved.
- If you run into any merge issues, refer to this git tutorial to help you resolve merge conflicts and other issues.
Congratulations! 🎉🎉 The Spacedrive team thanks you for your contribution! ✨
Once your PR is merged, your changes will be included in the next release of the application.
This error occurs when Xcode is not installed or when the Xcode command line tools are not in your PATH
.
To resolve this issue:
- Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
- Run
xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
. This command will use Xcode's developer tools instead of macOS's default tools.
If you run into this issue, or similar:
error: terminated(1): /us/bin/xcrun --sdk macos --show-sdk-platform-path output :
xcrun: error: unable to lookup item 'PlatformPath' from command line tools installation xcrun: error: unable to lookup item 'PlatformPath' in SDK '/Library/Developer /CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk'
Ensure that MacOS is fully updated, and that you have XCode installed (via the app store).
Once that has completed, run xcode-select --install
in the terminal to install the command line tools. If they are already installed, ensure that you update MacOS to the latest version available.
Also ensure that Rosetta is installed, as a few of our dependencies require it. You can install Rosetta with softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license
.
This CONTRIBUTING.md file was inspired by the github/docs CONTRIBUTING.md file, and we extend our gratitude to the original author.