Building and releasing

How to build the Azure Data Explorer (ADX) data source plugin locally

Dependencies

Make sure you have the following dependencies installed first:

Git
Go (see go.mod for minimum required version)
Mage
Node.js (Long Term Support)
Yarn

Frontend

Install dependencies
```
yarn install --pure-lockfile
```
Build plugin in development mode or run in watch mode
```
yarn dev
```
or
```
yarn watch
```
Build plugin in production mode
```
yarn build
```

Backend

Build the backend binaries
```
mage -v
```

Build a release for the Azure Data Explorer data source plugin

You need to have commit rights to the GitHub repository to publish a release.

Update the version number in the package.json file.
Update the CHANGELOG.md with the changes containted in the release.
Commit the changes to master and push to GitHub.
Create a release branch locally that follows the convention v(major).(minor).x, leaving the patch as x. For example:
```
git checkout -b v3.3.x
```
Push the new branch to GitHub
```
git push origin v3.3.x
```
This triggers the release pipeline on CircleCI. There are two steps in the pipeline that need a manual approval to proceed. Find your release build and wait until it reaches the approve_release step.
Click on the step and choose approve. Then wait until it reaches the publish_to_gcom step.
Click approve and check that the release is published to grafana.com.
Test the published version of the plugin either locally or on a Hosted Grafana instance.