CONTRIBUTING.md

Contribution guide

Installing dependencies

Before you can build the UV, we assume the following list of software is already installed in your system

• Git
• Node 18 or higher
• Npm 8.1.1 or higher

Fork repository

In order to contribute to the UV, you must have a github account so you can push code and create a new Pull Request (PR).

Once you are all setup, following the Github's guide of how to fork a repository: https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/

1. Clone the universalviewer repository:

   git clone https://github.com/UniversalViewer/universalviewer.git

2. On the command line, go in to the universalviewer folder

cd universalviewer

1. Run

   npm install

Running the examples on localhost

To build the debug version of the viewer, just run (on the command line, in the universalviewer folder):

npm start

This will compile the project using webpack and serve the examples on localhost:8080

Distribution Builds

To build the distribution version of the UV, just run (on the command line, in the universalviewer folder):

npm run build

2. Open universalviewer folder in your IDE

UV source code lives inside the /src/ folder.

Here is a diagram showing the overall architecture of the project.

3. Run test suite

Before commiting your changes make sure tests are passing:

npm test

Note: the development server must be running (npm start)

Tests are written using Jest

4. Create a branch and commit

# Create a git branch
git checkout -b my-improvement

# Add changes
git add .

# Create commit
git commit -m "fix(component): message"

5. Create a release

Checkout the main branch, and ensure it is up-to-date.

Run npm version [major | minor | patch] for example:

npm version patch

This will update the package.json version and create a git tag. Then push both the main/tag.

git push origin main v0.0.8

Then the GitHub action will pick up the tag and publish it to NPM.

Create a PR: https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/