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Contributing to Recharts
We'd love for you to contribute to our source code and to make Recharts even better than it is today!
If you want to know how to develop then check out the Development Guide.
Here are the guidelines we'd like you to follow:
Ongoing Initiatives
We use Github Discussion to organize our discussion along new initiatives and organize ourselves. Please do check the announcements section for an overview of recent initiatives.
Also feel free to join us on Slack: https://recharts.slack.com/archives/C042Q5K5UDC
Issues and Bugs
Where to Find Known Issues
We will be using GitHub Issues for our bugs and feature requests. We will keep a close eye on this and try to make it clear when we have an internal fix in progress. Before filing a new task, try to make sure your problem doesn't already exist.
Reporting New Issues
The best way to get your bug fixed is to provide a reduced test case. codesandbox provide a way to give live examples. You can fork our example in recharts.github.io to show your case.
Testing
We do cherish tests. They help us move swiftly, and release with confidence. In our repo, you will find three types of tests: Unit tests, rendering tests with RTL, and user interaction tests in storybook. Wherever possible we prefer the simplest tests - unit tests. Only where needed / useful we would use RTL or storybook tests.
Unit tests
When writing new code, aim for 100% unit test code coverage.
When implementing a new feature we would prefer to extract pure helper function for data processing.
Such functions are found in a few utils files. An example is test/util/ShallowEqual.spec.ts.
Unit testing in recharts has some specialties, please see Recharts unit tests README for more information.
React Testing Library
Some behaviour must be tested upon rendering, such as interactions between components (Line, Tooltip), see test/component/Tooltip.visibility.spec.tsx for an example.
Storybook Test Runner
Storybook also has a great interface for adding tests. By default every story in storybook is a smoke test (rendering without error logs means the test passed). Additionally, it is possible to add actual tests as play functions with an assert to a story. This will often be easier than using React Testing Library, because the natural test debugging tool is Storybook itself. See for example storybook/stories/Examples/cartesian/ReferenceLine/ReferenceLineIfOverflow.stories.tsx
Mutation tests
We have stryker installed and ready to use for mutation testing.
If you want to run mutation test be aware that these may take hours! A single file will take 15 minutes or more.
To run, update the list of checked files in ./stryker.config.mjs and then run with npm run test-mutation.
You will find test output in your console, and also HTML report in the ./reports folder.
Pull Requests
Working on your first Pull Request? You can learn how from this free series How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub
Before submitting a pull request, please make sure the following is done…
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Search GitHub for an open or closed Pull Request that relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort.
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Fork the repo and create your branch from
main. -
If you have added functionality or changed existing functionality, be sure to add a test. Ideally a unit test for helper function, or a test that includes rendering with RTL.
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If you've changed APIs, make sure that the stories in Storybook are working as expected.
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Ensure the test suite passes (
npm run test). -
Make sure your code lints (
npm run lint) - we've done our best to make sure these rules match our internal linting guidelines.
Code Guide
Our linter will catch most styling issues that may exist in your code.
You can check the status of your code styling by running: npm run lint
However, there are still some styles that the linter cannot pick up. If you are unsure about something, looking at Airbnb's Style Guide will guide you in the right direction.
Types
We use TypeScript for type safety. Some rules to follow:
- Never use
anytype. Implicit or explicit. - Prefer
unknownoverany. Refine the type. - Type your function parameters and return values explicitly, do not rely on implicit any or inference. Exceptions are React components and trivial functions where the types are obvious.
- Do not use
astype assertions, ever. The only exception isas const.
License
By contributing to Recharts, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its MIT license.