Thanks for showing interest to contribute to Chakra UI 💖, you rock!
When it comes to open source, there are different ways you can contribute, all of which are valuable. Here's few guidelines that should help you as you prepare your contribution.
- Setup
- Development
- Think you found a bug?
- Proposing new or changed API?
- Making a Pull Request?
- Want to write a blog post or tutorial
- Want to help improve the docs?
- License
The following steps will get you setup to contribute changes to this repo:
-
Fork the repo (click the Fork button at the top right of this page)
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Clone your fork locally
# in a terminal, cd to parent directory where you want your clone to be, then
git clone https://github.com/<your_github_username>/chakra-ui.git
cd chakra-ui
- Setup all dependencies and build. Chakra UI uses
yarn
andlerna
, so runyarn prestart
. This command will install dependencies, and then bootstrap the repo usinglerna
to build all packages.
If you run into any issues during this step, kindly reach out to the Chakra UI React team here: https://discord.gg/dQHfcWF
To improve our development process, we've setup a couple of systems. Chakra UI uses a monorepo structure, this means each component is it's own package and can use consumed independently.
- Lerna to manage installation of dependencies and running various scripts. We also have yarn workspaces enabled by default.
- Storybook for rapid UI component development and testing
- Testing Library for testing components and hooks
- Gatsby for a blazing fast documentation website. versioning and changelogs
yarn boot
: bootstraps the entire project, symlinks all dependencies for
cross-component development and builds all components.
yarn bootstrap
: bootstraps the entire project and symlinks all
dependencies for cross-component development
yarn storybook
: starts storybook server and loads stories in files that
ends with .stories.tsx
yarn docs:start
: run the documentation site locally
yarn build
: run build for all component packages
yarn test
: run test for all component packages
yarn release
: publish changed packages
yarn [package] <cmd>
: Run a command on the specific package you're working
on. You can run build
, test
, lint
commands
Since we're using lerna monorepo + yarn workspaces by default, this enables us to run commands within component package directly from the root.
Each component is named this way @chakra-ui/[component]
. Let's say we want to
build the checkbox component. Here's how to do it:
yarn workspace @chakra-ui/button build
# or
lerna run build --scope @chakra-ui/button
Shortcut: To make this shorter and more convenient, we've added an alias for
each component in the root package.json
. Now you can simple do:
# to build
yarn button build
# to test
yarn button test
yarn button test --watch
# to lint
yarn button lint
This alias is particularly useful when you're working on a specific component and want to avoid running the command for all components.
The documentation site is built with Gatsby. If you'd like to contribute to the
docs, simply run yarn build
, then yarn docs:build
, and then
yarn docs:start
.
Build components in isolation with Storybook using yarn storybook
.
Please conform to the issue template and provide a clear path to reproduction with a code example. The best way to show a bug is by sending a CodeSandbox link
You may wish to use our starters to help you get going:
- JavaScript Starter: https://codesandbox.io/s/chakra-ui-javascript-lzzg9
- TypeScript Starter: https://codesandbox.io/s/chakra-ui-typescript-pomi8
Please provide thoughtful comments and some sample API code. Proposals that don't line up with our roadmap or doesn't have a thoughtful explanation will be closed.
Pull requests need only the 👍 of two or more collaborators to be merged; when the PR author is a collaborator, that counts as one.
Before you create a Pull Request, please check whether your commits comply with the commit conventions used in this repository.
When you create a commit we kindly ask you to follow the convention
category(scope or module): message
in your commit message while using one of
the following categories:
feat / feature
: all changes that introduce completely new code or new featuresfix
: changes that fix a bug (ideally you will addtionally reference an issue if present)refactor
: any code related change that is not a fix nor a featuredocs
: changing existing or creating new documentation (i.e. README, docs for usage of a lib or cli usage)build
: all changes regarding the build of the software, changes to dependencies or the addition of new dependenciestest
: all changes regarding tests (adding new tests or changing existing ones)ci
: all changes regarding the configuration of continous integration (i.e. github actions, ci system)chore
: all changes to the repository that do not fit into any of the above categories
If you are interested in the detailed specification you can visit https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ or check out the Angular Commit Message Guidelines.
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Fork of the chakra-ui repository and clone your fork
-
Create a new branch out of the
develop
branch. We follow the convention[type/scope]
. For examplefix/accordion-hook
,docs/menu-typo
type
can be eitherdocs
,fix
,feat
,build
, or any other conventional commit typescope
is just a short id that describes the scope of work.
All commits that fix bugs or add features need a test.
Dear Chakra team: Please do not merge code without tests
That would be amazing! Reach out to the core team here: https://discord.gg/dQHfcWF. We would love to support you anyway we can.
TODO
By default, the GitHub REST API has an anonymous user rate limit. This can be hit during heavy local docs development if the server is frequently restarted.
Creating a GitHub token and storing it as the GITHUB_TOKEN
environment
variable allows the user to avoid the limit.
By contributing your code to the chakra-ui GitHub repository, you agree to license your contribution under the MIT license.