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Contributing to TinaCMS

The following is a set of guidelines and tips for contributing to the TinaCMS and its packages.

Contributor License Agreement

Before a Pull Request can be accepted, all contributors must sign the Contributor License Agreement. A GitHub Action runs against all Pull Requests to ensure that all commit authors on the associated Pull Request have signed the agreement.

Development

Disclaimer:

  • Tina is a new and fast moving project. Although API stability and easy developer experience is important to the core team, they cannot be guaranteed while the project is pre-1.0.
  • Although Tina supports many use cases not all of them have helper packages or comprehensive guides. If you’re looking to use Tina in a novel way you will have to do a lot of manual setup.

Recommended: use the active LTS version of Node.js

To get started:

git clone git@github.com:tinacms/tinacms.git
cd tinacms
npm install
npm run build

# Start Next.js Demo
cd packages/demo-next
npm run develop

WARNING: Do not run npm install from inside the packages directory

TinaCMS uses Lerna to manage dependencies when developing locally. This allows the various packages to reference each other via symlinks. Running npm install from within a package replaces the symlinks with references to the packages in the npm registry.

Commands

Commands Description
npm run bootstrap Install dependencies and link local packages.
npm run build Build all packages.
npm run test Run tests for all packages.
lerna run build --scope <package> Build only <package>.

Testing With External Projects

Linking apps to a monorepo can be tricky. Tools like npm link are buggy and introduce inconsistencies with module resolution. If multiple modules rely on the same package you can easily end up with multiple instances of that package, this is problematic for packages like react which expect only one instance.

@tinacms/webpack-helpers provides tools and instructions for testing local TinaCMS changes on external websites.

Making Commits

TinaCMS uses Conventional Commits to generate CHANGELOG entries. Please make sure your commits follow this convention.

Please include the package name in the scope of your commit. For example:

fix(react-tinacms-editor): table row add and delete icons no longer overlap

Creating Packages

Packages in Tina are organized according to their name

Type Naming Convention Example Path
Core Tina @tinacms/* @tinacms/core
React react-tinacms-* react-tinacms-remark
Next.js next-tinacms-* next-tinacms-json
Gatsby gatsby-tinacms-* gatsby-tinacms-json
Demos demo-* demo-gatsby

Troubleshooting in Development

This section contains solutions to various problems you may run into when developing for TinaCMS.

I pulled down changes and now my packages won't build

The links between the local packages may have been broken. If this is the problem, then running npm run bootstrap should fix the issue.

Example error message

sh: tinacms-scripts: command not found

I can't add dependencies to a package

Linking prevents running npm install from directly inside a package from working. There are two ways to get around this issue.

  1. Add the package with lerna

    You can use lerna to add new dependencies to a package from the root of the repository:

    lerna add react --scope react-cms

    The downside of this approach is you can only add one dependency at a time. If you need to add many packages, you can use the next method.

  2. Add dependencies manually, then bootstrap

    The other approach is to manually add the dependencies to the package.json and then run npm run bootstrap from the root of the repository.

  3. When I run npm run bs it deletes the contents of a package?

    This sucks. Try running lerna clean and then running npm run bs again.

Failed to Compile: Module not found: Can't resolve 'some-tinacms-package'

There are two reasons this error might occur:

  1. The package did not link to some-tinacms-package

    This is likely the problem if some-tinacms-package is missing from the node_modules. If it is, do the following:

    • Make sure some-tinacms-package is listed in the package.json
    • Run npm run bootstrap from the root of the repo.

  2. some-tinacms-package was not built.

    This is likely the problem if: the build directory is missing; there are no .d.ts or .js files. To fix this issue simply run npm run build from the root of the repository.

Release Process

TinaCMS packages are updated every Monday.

Checkout the RELEASE file for the details.

RFC Process

See the tinacms/rfcs repo for more info on how new changes are proposed to the tinacms core packages.