Hey @kcq, I want to work on this, also I am very new to the project can you please drop me a few resources from where I can learn and contribute?
I have joined the community to get more involved.

Hi @kcq, @iximiuz go through this codebase you explained - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioIG-oPg0pA
You took the session very nicely and I am going through the codebase.

The issue seems like when minifying the docker image need to provide a set of docker instructions/commands about images and containers similar to prompts?
Am I pointing right?
Please suggest the approach how should I go ahead with this
Thanks!

It's not limited to minifying images. There are several places in the code where the container instruction metadata is processed and those places use their own set of constants. For example:

https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim/blob/master/pkg/docker/instruction/instruction.go#L9

https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim/blob/master/pkg/docker/dockerfile/dockerfile.go#L19

https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim/blob/master/pkg/docker/dockerfile/reverse/reverse.go#L107

Okay. Thanks for sharing the links Kyle. Can you share more details on the above code and what exactly needs to be done?
I'll quickly start working on this!

Hey @kcq,
In this file - https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim/blob/master/pkg/docker/instruction/instruction.go#L9

1st approach -

This can be done by creating new enum called DockerInstruction and adding all constants to it. For example -

enum DockerInstruction {
Add, 
Arg,
Cmd 
Copy,
};

And code in the spec map update to use constants from the enum. For example -

Specs["Add"] = Format{
	Name:             ADD,
	SupportsFlags:    true,
	SupportsJSONForm: true,
}

How's this approach IMO?

2nd approach -

we can create a new constant InstructionNames that maps all the supported instruction names to their corresponding string values

var InstructionNames = map[string]string{
	"add":         Add,
	"arg":         Arg,
	"cmd":         Cmd,
	"copy":        Copy,

Hey @kcq should I go ahead with this ?

Hi @kcq I am researching various approaches to meet the end goal.
Also can we create different docker_instructions.go and add all constants to it and refractor the code ?