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Tips for Contributors

To run tests:

  • Yalc must be installed globally for most local development.
  • After updating code via git, to prepare all examples and run all tests:
cd react_on_rails/
bundle && yarn && rake examples:gen_all && rake node_package && rake

In order to run tests in browser

yarn global add  browserify babelify tape-run faucet
browserify -t babelify node_package/tests/*.js | tape-run | faucet

See Dev Initial Setup, below for, well... initial setup.

IDE/IDE SETUP

It's critical to configure your IDE/editor to ignore certain directories. Otherwise your IDE might slow to a crawl!

  • /coverage
  • /tmp
  • /gen-examples
  • /node_package/lib
  • /node_modules
  • /spec/dummy/app/assets/webpack
  • /spec/dummy/log
  • /spec/dummy/node_modules
  • /spec/dummy/client/node_modules
  • /spec/dummy/tmp
  • /spec/react_on_rails/dummy-for-generators

Configuring your test app to use your local fork

You can test the react-on-rails gem using your own external test app or the gem's internal spec/dummy app. The spec/dummy app is an example of the various setup techniques you can use with the gem.

├── test_app
|    └── client
└── react_on_rails
    └── spec
        └── dummy

Testing the Ruby Gem

If you want to test the ruby parts of the gem with an application before you release a new version of the gem, you can specify the path to your local version via your test app's Gemfile:

gem "react_on_rails", path: "../path-to-react-on-rails"

Note that you will need to bundle install after making this change, but also that you will need to restart your Rails application if you make any changes to the gem.

Testing the Node package for react-on-rails via Yalc

In addition to testing the Ruby parts out, you can also test the node package parts of the gem with an external application. First, be sure to build the NPM package:

cd react_on_rails/
yarn

# Update the lib directory with babel compiled files
yarn run build-watch

You need to do this once:

# Will send the updates to other folders
yalc publish
cd spec/dummy
yalc add react-on-rails

The workflow is:

  1. Make changes to the node package.
  2. We need yalc to push and then run yarn:
cd <top dir>
# Will send the updates to other folders
yalc push
cd spec/dummy

# Will update from yalc
yarn

When you run yalc push, you'll get an informative message

✗ yalc push
react-on-rails@12.0.0-12070fd1 published in store.
Pushing react-on-rails@12.0.0 in /Users/justin/shakacode/react-on-rails/react_on_rails/spec/dummy
Package react-on-rails@12.0.0-12070fd1 added ==> /Users/justin/shakacode/react-on-rails/react_on_rails/spec/dummy/node_modules/react-on-rails.
Don't forget you may need to run yarn after adding packages with yalc to install/update dependencies/bin scripts.

Example: Testing NPM changes with the dummy app

  1. Add console.log('Hello!') to [clientStartup.ts, function render](https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails/blob/master/node_package/src/clientStartup.ts in /node_package/src/clientStartup.js to confirm we're getting an update to the node package client side. Do the same for function serverRenderReactComponent in /node_package/src/serverRenderReactComponent.ts.
  2. Refresh the browser if the server is already running or start the server using foreman start from react_on_rails/spec/dummy and navigate to http://localhost:5000/. You will now see the Hello! message printed in the browser's console. If you did not see that message, then review the steps above for the workflow of making changes and pushing them via yalc.

Development Setup for Gem and Node Package Contributors

Dev Initial Setup

Prereqs

After checking out the repo, making sure you have rvm and nvm setup (setup ruby and node), cd to spec/dummy and run bin/setup to install ruby dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Local Node Package

Note, the example and dummy apps will use your local node_package folder as the react-on-rails node package. This will also be done automatically for you via the rake examples:gen_all rake task.

Side note: It's critical to use the alias section of the webpack config to avoid a double inclusion error. This has already been done for you in the example and dummy apps, but for reference:

  resolve: {
    alias: {
      react: path.resolve('./node_modules/react'),
      'react-dom': path.resolve('./node_modules/react-dom'),
    },
  },

Install NPM dependencies and build the NPM package for react-on-rails

cd react_on_rails/
yarn
yarn build

Or run this which builds the yarn package, then the webpack files for spec/dummy, and runs tests in spec/dummy.

# Optionally change default selenium_firefox driver
export DRIVER=selenium_firefox
cd react_on_rails/
yarn run dummy:spec

Run NPM JS tests

cd react_on_rails/
yarn test

Run spec/dummy tests

cd react_on_rails/spec/dummy
rspec

Run most tests and linting

cd react_on_rails/
yarn run check

Starting the Dummy App

To run the dummy app, it's CRITICAL to not just run rails s. You have to run foreman start with one of the Procfiles. If you don't do this, then webpack will not generate a new bundle, and you will be seriously confused when you change JavaScript and the app does not change. If you change the webpack configs, then you need to restart foreman. If you change the JS code for react-on-rails, you need to run yarn run build. Since the react-on-rails package should be sym linked, you don't have to yarn react-on-rails after every change.

RSpec Testing

Run rake for testing the gem and spec/dummy. Otherwise, the rspec command only works for testing within the sample apps, like spec/dummy.

If you run rspec at the top level, you'll see this message: require': cannot load such file -- rails_helper (LoadError)

After running a test, you can view the coverage results SimpleCov reports by opening coverage/index.html.

Turbolinks 5 is included in the test app, unless "DISABLE_TURBOLINKS" is set to YES in the environment.

Run rake -T or rake -D to see testing options.

rake all_but_examples is typically best for developers, except if any generators changed.

See below for verifying changes to the generators.

Install Generator

In your Rails app add this gem with a path to your fork.

gem 'react_on_rails', path: '../relative/path/to/react_on_rails'

Then run bundle.

The main installer can be run with rails generate react_on_rails:install

Then use yalc to add the npm module.

Be sure that your ran this first at the top level of React on Rails

yalc publish

Then add the node package to your test app:

yalc add react-on-rails

Testing the Generator

The generators are covered by generator tests using Rails's generator testing helpers, but it never hurts to do a sanity check and explore the API. See generator_testing_script.md for a script on how to run the generator on a fresh project.

rake run_rspec:example_basic is a great way to run tests on one generator. Once that works, you should run rake run_rspec:examples. Be aware that this will create a hug number of files under a /gen-examples directory. You should be sure to exclude this directory from your IDE and delete it once your testing is done.

Linting

All linting is performed from the docker container for CI. You will need docker and docker-compose installed locally to lint code changes via the lint container. You can lint locally by running npm run lint && npm run flow

Once you have docker and docker-compose running locally, run docker-compose build lint. This will build the reactonrails_lint docker image and docker-compose lint container. The initial build is slow, but after the install, startup is very quick.

Linting Commands

Run rake lint.

Alternately with Docker:

Run rake -D docker to see all docker linting commands for rake. rake docker:lint will run all linters. For individual rake linting commands please refer to rake -D docker for the list.

You can run specific linting for directories or files by using docker-compose run lint rubocop (file path or directory), etc.

docker-compose run lint bash sets you up to run from the container command line.

Updating Rubocop

2 files require updating to update the Rubocop version:

  1. react_on_rails.gemspec
  2. spec/dummy/Gemfile

Docker CI - Test and Linting

Docker CI and Tests containers have a xvfd server automatically started for headless browser testing with selenium and Firefox.

Run docker-compose build ci to build the CI container. Run docker-compose run ci to start all rspec tests and linting. docker-compose run --entrypoint=/bin/bash will override the default CI action and place you inside the CI container in a bash session. This is what is run on Travis-CI.

Run docker-compose build tests to build the tests container. Run docker-compose run tests to start all RSpec tests.

Advice for Project Maintainers and Contributors

What do project maintainers do? What sort of work is involved? sstephenson wrote in the turbolinks repo:

Why this is not still fully merged?