If you want to contribute to the project please open a ticket first and describe what you want to do or what your idea is. Maybe there already is an existing ticket for your or a very similar topic.
I may decline contributions for features that may not fit into the application, so make sure to talk to me before starting to code.
- Always use the
dev
branch to work on the application. The dev branch will contain the latest version of the app while themaster
branch may contains the stable version (which may be outdated in terms of development). - Consider using a separate branch if you are working on a larger feature.
- Reference the issue number in your commits please.
- When opening a pull request, link to your ticket and describe what you did to solve the problem.
The following steps assume that you are using Docker for development, which I highly encourage. If you use other ways to work with PHP projects you must adapt the commands to your system. Clone the repository to your machine and run the following commands to start the Docker container system:
cp .env.docker .env
docker-compose up -d --build
Now, install all dependencies from inside the PHP container:
docker exec -it linkace-php composer install
docker exec -it linkace-php php artisan key:generate
Last step: compile all assets. Node 10 LTS is the minimum version required and recommended to use. You may use either NPM or Yarn for installing the asset dependencies.
npm install
npm run dev
I recommend using the Artisan command line tool in the PHP container only, to make sure that the same environment is used. To do so, use the following example command:
docker exec linkace-php bash -c "php artisan migrate"
Currently, you can do this by using the command line:
docker exec -it linkace-php bash -c "php artisan registeruser [user name] [user email]"
You can run existing tests with the following command:
docker exec -it linkace-php composer run lint
docker exec -it linkace-php composer run test
The Base image for LinkAce contains several packages and PHP extensions needed by LinkAce. It shortens the build time of the release images. This step is not needed by any developer working on LinkAce and ist just a documentation for maintainers.
docker buildx build --push --platform "linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/arm/v7" -t linkace/base-image:php-8.1-alpine -f resources/docker/dockerfiles/release-base.Dockerfile .