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# Development Guide
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Welcome, soon-to-be contributor 🙂! This document sums up what you
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need to know to get started hacking on Nativefier.
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Welcome, soon-to-be contributor 🙂! This document sums up
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what you need to know to get started hacking on Nativefier.
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## Guidelines
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1. **Before starting work on a huge change, gauge the interest**
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of community & maintainers through a GitHub issue.
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For big changes, create a **[RFC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments)**
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of community & maintainers through a GitHub issue. For big changes,
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create a **[RFC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments)**
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issue to enable a good peer review.
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2. Do your best to **avoid adding new Nativefier command-line options**.
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If a new option is inevitable for what you want to do, sure,
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but as much as possible try to see if you change works without.
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Nativefier already has a ton of them, making it hard to use.
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3. Do your best to **limit breaking changes**.
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Only introduce breaking changes when necessary, when required by deps, or when
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not breaking would be unreasonable. When you can, support the old thing forever.
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Introducing breaking changes willy nilly is a comfort to us developers, but is
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disrespectful to end users who must constantly bend to the flow of breaking changes
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pushed by _all their software_ who think it's "just one breaking change".
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4. **Avoid adding npm dependencies**. Each new dep is a complexity & security liability.
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You might be thinking your extra dep is _"just a little extra dep"_, and maybe
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you found one that is high-quality & dependency-less. Still, it's an extra dep,
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little helper function saving us a dep for a mundane task, go for the helper :) .
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Also, an in-tree helper will always be less complex than a dep, as inherently
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more tailored to our use case, and less complexity is good.
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5. Use **types**, avoid `any`, write **tests**.
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6. **Document for users** in `API.md`
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7. **Document for other devs** in comments, jsdoc, commits, PRs.
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Say _why_ more than _what_, the _what_ is your code!
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3. Here is [a screencast of how the live-reload experience should look like](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/522085/120407694-abdf3f00-c31b-11eb-9ab5-a531a929adb9.mp4)
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- Alternatively, you can run both test processes in the same terminal by running: `npm run watch`
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## Major-updating Electron
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## Maintainers corner
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### Major-updating Electron
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When a new major [Electron release](https://github.com/electron/electron/releases) occurs,
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1. If `master` has unreleased commits, make a patch/minor release with them, but without the major Electron bump.
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2. Commit your Electron major bump and release it as a major new Nativefier version. Help users identify the breaking change by using a bold **[BREAKING]** marker in `CHANGELOG.md` and in the GitHub release.
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## Release
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### Release
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While on `master`, with no uncommitted changes, run:
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```bash
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npm run changelog -- $VERSION
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# With no 'v'. For example: npm run changelog -- 42.5.0
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# With no 'v'. For example: npm run changelog -- '42.5.0'
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```
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Do follow semantic versioning, and give visibility to breaking changes by prefixing their line with **[BREAKING]**.
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Do follow semantic versioning, and give visibility to breaking changes
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in release notes by prefixing their line with **[BREAKING]**.
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