Guide for Contributors

[topherPedersen]

Hello! The organization I work for uses this library, and we're running into some issues with the positioning of the child elements. For example, if we highlight a view such as with a , sometimes the positioning is off the for the child view. Today I was able to add a little patch that will let us tweak this positioning by passing a prop if for some reason the library gets the positioning wrong.

I was just wondering, could you help me learn how to properly fork, and then import my fork into an example app for testing? How do you go about doing this? I was thinking, maybe a short section of the README on how to contribute, work on, and test this library could be helpful for future contributors.

For example, today I had a lot of trouble forking the library and then integrating into my example app for testing. However, I was able to copy a working version react-native-walkthrough-tooltip directly from my node_modules, and create a new repo that way. And that's sort of where I am now. However, having cloned react-native-walkthrough-tooltip in this manner I'm not really able to submit pull requests targeting this repo on GitHub as GitHub has no idea that my new "forked" repo was actually forked from here.

How do you go about working on this library, and then testing it in an example app? Please let me know how you go about doing this, and maybe I could become a contributor?

Thanks a bunch! We use this library a lot in my organizations app, and we plan on using it for a long time as it's the best/most-popular tooltip library we've found so far.