peertube-plugin-livechat/CONTRIBUTING.md
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Documentation update + remove docker build:
* Update documentation and removed deprecated parts
* removed Docker image build files, as it is no more needed
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# Welcome to the contributing guide for the plugin peertube-plugin-livechat
Interested in contributing? Awesome!
## Code of conduct
Please read the [CODE_OF_CONDUCT](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
## Translate
You can help us to translate this PeerTube plugin by creating or modifying translation files in the `languages` folder.
Please work on the `develop` branch, and do your commits and pull request on this branch.
If the language you are interesting in does not exist yet, create a file `code.json` in the `languages` folder, where `code` is the language code.
The language code must be the same as the Peertube's langage code (see [Peertube documentation](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/translation.md)).
Then add the language file in the [package.json](package.json) file, under the key `translations`.
Translation strings are set in the language file as follow:
- files are in [JSON format](https://www.json.org)
- the JSON key is the english string (see existing keys in the [french translation file](languages/fr.json)).
- the JSON value is the translating string
- NB: there is no english translation file (this is how translation works for peertube's plugins)
## Give your feedback
You don't need to know how to code to start contributing to this plugin! Other
contributions are very valuable too, among which: you can test the software and
report bugs, you can give feedback, features that you are
interested in, user interface, design, ...
## Develop
Always talk about features you want to develop by creating/finding and commenting the issue tackling your problem
before you start working on it, and inform the community that you begin coding by claiming the issue.
Please use the `develop` branch. The `main` branch is reserved to released versions of the plugin, so that the documentation is always synchronized with the released version of the plugin.
Prerequisite for building this plugin:
- you must have `npm` installed
- you must have python venv installed (`python3-venv` package on Debian for example)
To clone the repository:
```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/JohnXLivingston/peertube-plugin-livechat.git
# Checkout the develop branch
git checkout develop
# Initialize the submodules. This command must be run again if any submodules' version changes.
git submodule update --init --recursive
# Install NPM dependencies and build the module for the first time:
npm install
# Build the plugin after a modification:
npm run build
# If you have a fork from the repository, add it as remote (example):
git remote add me git@github.com:MY_GITHUB_ACCOUNT/peertube-plugin-livechat.git
# Create a local branch for you developments, and checkout it (example):
git checkout my_development # Note: if an issue is associated, use fix_1234 as your branch name (where 1234 is the issue's number)
# To propose your modifications, push your branch to your repository (example):
git push --set-upstream me my_development
# Then go to your github repository with your web browser to propose the Pull Request (see additional instructions below)
```
Once you are ready to show your code to ask for feedback, submit a *draft* Pull Request.
Once you are ready for a code review before merge, submit a Pull Request. In any case, please
link your PR to the issues it solves by using the GitHub syntax: "fixes #issue_number".
The front-end code is in the `client` folder, the back-end code in `server`. There are some shared code in `shared` folder.
For general instructions (developping plugins, building, installation, ...), please refer to the [Peertube documentation](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-plugins?id=write-a-plugintheme).
You can build the plugin with extra debug features simply by using:
```bash
NODE_ENV=dev npm run build
```