The issue tracker is only for bug reports and enhancement suggestions. If you have a question, please ask it in the Discord server instead of opening an issue – you will get redirected there anyway.
If you wish to contribute to the discord.js codebase or documentation, feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request. We use ESLint to enforce a consistent coding style, so having that set up in your editor of choice is a great boon to your development process.
To get ready to work on the codebase, please do the following:
- Fork & clone the repository, and make sure you're on the main branch
- Run
yarn --immutable
(install) - Run
yarn build
to build local packages - Code your heart out!
- Run
yarn test
to run ESLint and ensure any JSDoc changes are valid - Submit a pull request (Make sure you follow the conventional commit format)
If you want to test changes you've made locally, you can do so by using yarn link
. This will create a symlink to your local copy of the discord.js libraries.
- Create a new directory
mkdir discordjs-test
and move into itcd discordjs-test
- Initialize a new yarn 3 project
yarn init -2
- Disable pnp
yarn config set nodeLinker node-modules
- Now link the local discord.js project you cloned earlier
yarn link -A {PATH_TO_DISCORDJS_REPO}
- Install packages you'd like to test locally
yarn add discord.js@latest
,yarn add @discordjs/rest@latest
, etc. Note: Make sure you uselatest
tag or else yarn will try to install the remote package from npm - Import the package in your source code and test them out!
When testing local changes, you may notice you need to manually recompile TypeScript projects on every change in order to get the latest code changes to test locally.
To avoid this you can use the --watch
parameter in the package build script to automatically recompile the project when changes are detected.
For example, to automatically recompile the @discordjs/rest
project when changes are detected, run yarn turbo run build --filter=@discordjs/rest -- --watch
in the root folder of where you cloned the discord.js repo.
If you'd like to create another package under the @discordjs
organization run the following command:
yarn create-package <package-name> [package-description]
This will create new package directory under packages/
with the required configuration files. You can
begin to make changes within the src/
directory.