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🎉 Contributing to PearAI

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Welcome to the PearAI app! PearAI is a fork of VSCode (and Continue), with most of the functionality in extension/pearai-submodule. Follow the guide below to contribute effectively and have fun while doing it! 😄

🚀 Getting Started

After cloning and building the repo, check out our issues list. For first-time contributors, issues labeled good first issue are great starting points. If you're contributing significant changes, or if the issue is already assigned to a specific milestone, please discuss with the assignee first on Discord.

🛠 Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following tools installed:

  • 🦀 Rust/Cargo
  • 🐙 Git
  • 🌐 Node.JS, x64, version =20.X.X
  • 📦 Yarn 1, version >=1.10.1 and <2
  • 🐍 Python, version =3.11.X (required for node-gyp)
  • ⚙️ A C/C++ compiler toolchain for your platform:
    • Windows: Install the Windows Build Tools and follow the detailed setup steps.
    • macOS: Install Xcode and Command Line Tools with xcode-select --install.
    • Linux: Install the necessary development tools as described in the instructions.

🌟 Contributing Workflow

1️⃣ Fork and Clone

  1. Go to the pearai-app repository.

  2. Click on the "Fork" button at the top right of the page to create a copy of the repository under your own GitHub account.

  3. Once forked, clone the repository to your local machine using the following command in your terminal:

    git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/pearai-app.git

2️⃣ Setup Environment

First time setup:

  • macOS and Linux: 
    ./scripts/pearai/setup-environment.sh
  • Windows: 
    .\scripts\pearai/setup-environment.ps1

To rebuild the app after initial setup:

  • macOS and Linux: 
    ./scripts/pearai/install-dependencies.sh
  • Windows: 
    yarn

3️⃣ Run the App

PearAI is split into two parts. pearai-app and pearai-submodule.

  • pearai-app: VSCode fork and parent repository for PearAI. Most contributions will NOT end up here.

  • ./extensions/pearai-submodule: Nearly all of PearAI's functionality, packaged as a built-in VSCode/PearAI extension. It is a fork of Continue, and is a git submodule of pearai-app. Most contributions will end up here!

A) PearAI Submodule / Extension

  1. Open the directory extensions/pearai-submodule in PearAI or VSCode.
  2. Make edits.
  3. In VSCode/PearAI, open the command palette (cmd/ctrl+shift+p) and select Tasks: Run Task and then select install-and-build.
  4. Start debugging:
    • Switch to Run and Debug view.
    • Select Extension (VS Code) from the drop-down.
    • Hit the play button.
    • This will start the extension in debug mode and open a new VSCode/PearAI window with the submodule installed (with your local changes).

B) PearAI App

  1. Run yarn watch in a terminal - wait for it to compile everything (around 2 mins), it then shows "finished compiling", keep it running.
  2. For watching extension - open another terminal and run: 
    cd extensions/pearai-submodule/extensions/vscode
yarn tsc-watch
  3. Open another terminal to run the app:
    • macOS and Linux: 
      ./scripts/code.sh
    • Windows:

      • If first time installing, you must run:

        .\scripts\code.bat

      • On consecutive runs, we recommend downloading Git Bash, and running:

        ./scripts/code.sh

        *Note: this is due to the fact that the symlinking must be performed within the code.bat file on Windows on the first run. But on consecutive runs the symlink will already be created, so you can use the faster script which is code.sh

💻 Automated Testing

Run the unit tests directly from a terminal by running ./scripts/test.sh from the pearai-app folder (scripts est on Windows).

We also have automated UI tests. The smoke test README has all the details.

🔍 Linting

We use eslint for linting our sources. You can run eslint across the sources by calling yarn eslint from a terminal or command prompt. You can also run yarn eslint as a VS Code task by pressing Ctrl+P (CMD+P on macOS) and entering task eslint.

To lint the source as you make changes you can install the eslint extension.

🌿 Work Branches

Even if you have push rights on the trypear/pearai-app repository, you should create a personal fork and create feature branches (yourname/branch-name, e.g. pan/open-chat-shortcut) there when you need them. This keeps the main repository clean and your personal workflow cruft out of sight.

📜 Pull Requests

Before we can accept a pull request from you, you'll need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). It is an automated process and you only need to do it once.

To enable us to quickly review and accept your pull requests, always create one pull request per issue and link the issue in the pull request. Never merge multiple requests in one unless they have the same root cause. Be sure to follow our Coding Guidelines and keep code changes as small as possible. Avoid pure formatting changes to code that has not been modified...

🐛 Creating Issues

Before you submit an issue, please do a search in open issues to see if the issue or feature request has already been filed. Use the provided issue template when creating a new issue. Fill in the template with as much detail as possible. The more detail you provide, the more likely that someone can help you. Alternatively, you can use Pear to create a ticket for the problem first. Simply describe the issue or feature request, and Pear will create a ticket for it. This can help you understand the problem better and guide you in manually solving it. You can also directly ping the maintainers or admins in the Discord.

⚙️ Packaging

This section outlines how to the app for a new release/distribution. This process is a bit manual currently.

Step 1: PearAI App

PearAI can be d for the following platforms: win32-ia32 | win32-x64 | darwin-x64 | darwin-arm64 | linux-ia32 | linux-x64 | linux-arm.

These gulp tasks are available:

  • vscode-[platform]: Builds a d version for [platform].
  • vscode-[platform]-min: Builds a d and minified version for [platform].
  1. If you have not already, run ./scripts/pearai/setup-environment.[sh,ps1].
  2. If already ran that upon your first install, run ./scripts/pearai/install-dependencies.[sh,ps1].
  3. Run yarn gulp vscode-[platform]. For example yarn gulp vscode-linux-x64.

This will generate the new PearAI app and takes around 1 hour.

Step 2: Package PearAI Extension

pearai-submodule also needs to be packaged and integrated into the overall PearAI app.

  1. cd into extensions/pearai-submodule.
  2. Run ./scripts/install-and-build.sh.
  3. cd into extensions/vscode (Full path is now extensions/pearai-submodule/extensions/vscode/).
  4. Run npm run package.
  5. This will create the .vsix extension within extensions/pearai-submodule/extensions/vscode/build.
  6. Right-click the .vsix in VSCode or PearAI and select Install vsix as Extension.

Step 3: Integrate the Extension

  1. Copy the generated pearai.pearai-1.x.x folder under ~/.vscode/extensions to the extensions folder of the packaged PearAI App (right click on packaged app -> Show Package Contents).
  2. Delete any existing pearai-submodule folder in the extensions/ folder of the packaged PearAI app.
  3. Double-click your overall PearAI app, and the extension should be built-in.
  • On MacOS for example (Using VScode for .vsix installation)
    1. cp -r ~/.vscode/extensions/pearai.pearai-{PEARAI_VERSION} {PATH_TO_PearAI.app}/Contents/Resources/app/extension
    2. rm -rf {PATH_TO_PearAI.app}/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/pearai-submodule
    3. Double-click your overall PearAI app, and the extension should be built-in.

Step 4: Signing and Turn Into Installer

Admin must sign the app on certain OS's, like MacOS. Admin should follow these manuals.