Contribute to Strapi

👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍

The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to Strapi and its packages.

Strapi is an open-source project administered by the Strapi team.

Before contributing, ensure that your effort is aligned with the project's roadmap by talking to the maintainers, especially if you are going to spend a lot of time on it. Feel free to join us on Slack if you are interested in helping us or drop us an email if you are interested in working with us.

Code of Conduct

This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Strapi Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to hi@strapi.io.

Open Development & Community Driven

Strapi is open-source under the MIT license. All the work done is available on GitHub. The core team and the contributors send pull requests which go through the same validation process.

Every user can send a feature request using the issues on GitHub. Feel free to upvote 👍 existing feature request

Repository Organization

We made the choice to use a monorepo design such as React, Babel, Meteor or Ember do. It allows the community to easily maintain the whole ecosystem up-to-date and consistent.

The Babel team wrotes an excellent short post about the pros and cons of the monorepo design.

We will do our best to keep the master branch clean as possible, with tests passing all the times. However, it can happen that the master branch moves faster than the release cycle. To ensure to use the latest stable version, please refers to the release on npm.

If you send a pull request, please do it again the master branch. We are developing upcoming versions separately to ensure non-breaking changes from master to the latest stable major version.

Setup Development Environment

To facilitate the contribution, we drastically reduce the amount of commands necessary to install the entire development environment. First of all, you need to check if you're using the recommended versions of Node.js (v8) and npm (v5).

Then, please follow the instructions below:

Fork the repository to your own GitHub account.
Clone it to your computer git clone git@github.com:strapi/strapi.git.
Run npm run setup at the root of the directory.

Note: If the installation failed, please remove the global packages related to Strapi. The command npm ls strapi will help you to find where your packages are installed globally.

Note: You can run npm run setup:build to build the plugins' admin (the setup time will be longer).

The development environment has been installed. Now, you have to create a development project to live-test your updates.

Go to a folder on your computer cd /path/to/my/folder.
Create a new project strapi new myDevelopmentProject --dev.
Start your app with strapi start.

Awesome! You are now able to make bug fixes or enhancements in the framework layer of Strapi. To make updates in the administration panel, you need to go a little bit further.

Open a new tab or new terminal window.
Go to the my-app/admin folder of your currently running app.
Run npm start and go to the following url http://localhost:4000/admin

Plugin Development Setup

To create a new plugin, you'll have to run the following commands

In your project folder cd myDevelopmentProject && strapi generate:plugin my-plugin.
Make sure that the strapi-helper-plugin is linked to your plugin

In the folder where strapi is cloned cd pathToStrapiRepo/strapi/packages/strapi-helper-plugin && npm link.
In your project folder cd pathToMyProject/myDevelopmentProject/plugins/my-plugin && npm link strapi-helper-plugin.

Start the server in the admin folder cd pathToMyProject/myDevelopmentProject/admin && npm start and go to the following url http://localhost:4000/admin.

Reporting an issue

Before reporting an issue you need to make sure:

You are experiencing a concrete technical issue with Strapi (ideas and feature proposals should happen on Slack).
You are not asking a question about how to use Strapi or about whether or not Strapi has a certain feature. For general help using Strapi, please refer to the official Strapi documentation. For additional help, ask a question on StackOverflow.
You have already searched for related issues, and found none open (if you found a related closed issue, please link to it in your post).
Your issue title is concise, on-topic and polite.
You can provide steps to reproduce this issue that others can follow.
You have tried all the following (if relevant) and your issue remains:
- Make sure you have the right application started.
- Make sure you've killed the Strapi server with CTRL+C and started it again.
- Make sure you closed any open browser tabs pointed at localhost before starting Strapi.
- Make sure you do not have any other Strapi applications running in other terminal windows.
- Make sure the application you are using to reproduce the issue has a clean node_modules directory, meaning:
  - no dependencies are linked (e.g. you haven't run npm link)
  - that you haven't made any inline changes to files in the node_modules folder
  - that you don't have any weird global dependency loops. The easiest way to double-check any of the above, if you aren't sure, is to run: $ rm -rf node_modules && npm cache clear && npm install.

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