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# Contributing to Pinafore
## Installing
To install with dev dependencies, run:
yarn
## Dev server
To run a dev server with hot reloading:
yarn run dev
Now it's running at `localhost:4002`.
**Linux users:** for file changes to work,
you'll probably want to run `export CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING=1`
because of [this issue](https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/issues/237).
## Linting
Pinafore uses [JavaScript Standard Style](https://standardjs.com/).
Lint:
yarn run lint
Automatically fix most linting issues:
yarn run lint-fix
## Integration tests
Integration tests use [TestCafé](https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/) and a live local Mastodon instance
running on `localhost:3000`.
### Running integration tests
The integration tests require running Mastodon itself,
meaning the [Mastodon development guide](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/development/overview/)
is relevant here. In particular, you'll need a recent
version of Ruby, Redis, and Postgres running. For a full list of deps, see `bin/setup-mastodon-in-travis.sh`.
Run integration tests, using headless Chrome by default:
npm test
Run tests for a particular browser:
BROWSER=chrome yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=chrome:headless yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=firefox yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=firefox:headless yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=safari yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=edge yarn run test-browser
If the script isn't able to set up the Postgres database, try running:
sudo su - postgres
Then:
psql -d template1 -c "CREATE USER pinafore WITH PASSWORD 'pinafore' CREATEDB;"
### Testing in development mode
In separate terminals:
1\. Run a Mastodon dev server:
yarn run run-mastodon
2\. Run a Pinafore dev server:
yarn run dev
3\. Run a debuggable TestCafé instance:
npx testcafe --debug-mode chrome tests/spec
### Test conventions
The tests have a naming convention:
* `0xx-test-name.js`: tests that don't modify the Mastodon database (read-only)
* `1xx-test-name.js`: tests that do modify the Mastodon database (read-write)
In principle the `0-` tests don't have to worry about
clobbering each other, whereas the `1-` ones do.
### Mastodon used for testing
There are two parts to the Mastodon data used for testing:
1. A Postgres dump and a tgz containing the media files, located in `fixtures`
2. A script that populates the Mastodon backend with test data (`restore-mastodon-data.js`).
The reason we don't use a Postgres dump for everything
is that Mastodon will ignore changes made after a certain period of time, and we
don't want our tests to randomly start breaking one day. Running the script ensures that statuses,
favorites, boosts, etc. are all "fresh".
### Updating the test data
You probably don't want to do this, as the `0xx` tests are pretty rigidly defined against the test data.
Write a `1xx` test instead and insert what you need on-the-fly.
If you really need to, though, you can either:
1. Add new test data to `mastodon-data.js`
or
1. Comment out `await restoreMastodonData()` in `run-mastodon.js`
2. Make your changes manually to the live Mastodon
3. Run the steps in the next section to back it up to `fixtures/`
### Updating the Mastodon version
1. Run `rm -fr mastodon` to clear out all Mastodon data
1. Comment out `await restoreMastodonData()` in `run-mastodon.js` to avoid actually populating the database with statuses/favorites/etc.
2. Update the `GIT_TAG_OR_BRANCH` in `run-mastodon.js` to whatever you want
3. Run `yarn run run-mastodon`
4. Run `yarn run backup-mastodon-data` to overwrite the data in `fixtures/`
5. Uncomment `await restoreMastodonData()` in `run-mastodon.js`
6. Commit all changed files
7. Run `rm -fr mastodon/` and `yarn run run-mastodon` to confirm everything's working
Check `mastodon.log` if you have any issues.
Note that we also run `db:migrate` just to play it safe, but
updating the `fixtures/` should make that a no-op.
## Unit tests
There are also some unit tests that run in Node using Mocha. You can find them in `tests/unit` and
run them using `yarn run test-unit`.
## Legacy build
Pinafore also offers a "legacy" build designed for older browsers. To build this version, use:
LEGACY=1 yarn build
## Debug build
To disable minification in a production build (for debugging purposes), you can run:
DEBUG=1 yarn build
## Debugging Webpack
The Webpack Bundle Analyzer `report.html` and `stats.json` are available publicly via e.g.:
- [dev.pinafore.social/report.html](https://dev.pinafore.social/report.html)
- [dev.pinafore.social/stats.json](https://dev.pinafore.social/stats.json)
This is also available locally after `yarn run build` at `.sapper/client/report.html`.
## Codebase overview
Pinafore uses [SvelteJS](https://svelte.technology) and [SapperJS](https://sapper.svelte.technology). Most of it is a fairly typical Svelte/Sapper project, but there
are some quirks, which are described below. This list of quirks is non-exhaustive.
### Prebuild process
The `template.html` is itself templated. The "template template" has some inline scripts, CSS, and SVGs
injected into it during the build process. SCSS is used for global CSS and themed CSS, but inside of the
components themselves, it's just vanilla CSS because I couldn't figure out how to get Svelte to run a SCSS
preprocessor.
### Lots of small files
Highly modular, highly functional, lots of single-function files. Tends to help with tree-shaking and
code-splitting, as well as avoiding circular dependencies.
### Preact is loaded dynamically
This is a Svelte project, but `emoji-mart` is used for the emoji picker, and it's written in React. So we
lazy-load the React-compatible Preact library when we load `emoji-mart`.
### Some third-party code is bundled
For various reasons, `a11y-dialog`, `autosize`, and `timeago` are forked and bundled into the source code.
This was either because something needed to be tweaked or fixed, or I was trimming unused code and didn't
see much value in contributing it back, because it was too Pinafore-specific.
### Every Sapper page is "duplicated"
To get a nice animation on the nav bar when you switch columns, every page is lazy-loaded as `LazyPage.html`.
This "lazy page" is merely delayed a few frames to let the animation run. Therefore there is a duplication
between `src/routes` and `src/routes/_pages`. The "lazy page" is in the former, and the actual page is in the
latter. One imports the other.
### There are multiple stores
Originally I conceived of separating out the virtual list into a separate npm package, so I gave it its
own Svelte store (`virtualListStore.js`). This never happened, but it still has its own store. This is useful
anyway, because each store has its state maintained in an LRU cache that allows us to keep the scroll position
in the virtual list e.g. when the user hits the back button.
Also, the main `store.js` store is explicitly
loaded by every component that uses it. So there's no `store` inheritance; every component just declares
whatever store it uses. The main `store.js` is the primary one.
### There is a global event bus
It's in `eventBus.js`. This is useful for some stuff that is hard to do with standard Svelte or DOM events.