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There are many ways that you can contribute to the Azure SDK for JavaScript project:
- Submit a bug
- Submit a code fix for a bug
- Submit additions or modifications to the documentation
- Submit a feature request
All code submissions will be reviewed and tested by the team, and those that meet a high bar for both quality and design/roadmap appropriateness will be merged into the source. Be sure to follow the existing file/folder structure when adding new boards or sensors.
If you encounter any bugs with the library please file an issue in the Issues section of the project.
Some guidance for when you make a contribution:
- Add/update unit tests and code as required by your change
- Make sure you run all the unit tests on the affected platform(s)/languages. If the change is in common code, generally running on one platform would be acceptable.
- Run end-to-end tests or simple sample code to make sure the lib works in an end-to-end scenario.
If your contribution is significantly big it is better to first check with the project developers in order to make sure the change aligns with the long term plans. This can be done simply by submitting a question via the GitHub Issues section.
This project uses Rush to manage our many Azure SDK libraries within a single repository. It is highly recommended that you read the Rush Developer Tutorials to familiarize yourself with the tool.
While you
can continue to contribute to the project using the standard npm workflow, adopting Rush will provide you many benefits:
- Your local build results will match what occurs on our build server, since the build server uses Rush to build the SDK.
- Rush will ensure that all libraries use the same versions of a given dependency, making it easier to reason about our dependency graph and reducing bundle size.
- Rush uses PNPM to install all dependencies across the SDK. Together they solve problems involving phantom dependencies and NPM doppelgangers. The way PNPM lays out packages also ensures that you can never accidentally use a dependency you don't directly declare in your package.json.
- Dependencies between different libraries within the Azure SDK will be locally linked by default. This means you can make a local change in a library your library depends on, and it will just work without needing to use awkward "file:" paths in your package.json.
- When a change is made in a local dependency, Rush will detect that the dependency is dirty and will rebuild it if you attempt to build a project that consumes that dependency.
- Rush runs project tasks in parallel, subject to the inter-project dependencies that it detects. It also performs incremental builds by default, not rebuilding anything unnecessary (unless you tell it to).
Want to get started hacking on the code? Super! Follow these instructions to get up and running.
First, make sure you have the prerequisites installed and available on your $PATH:
- Git
- Node 8.x or higher
- Rush 5.x
- Install / update Rush globally via
npm install -g @microsoft/rush. - Rush will automatically manage the specific version needed by this repo as long as you have any v5 version installed.
- If you're unable to install a global tool, you can instead call the wrapper script
node <repo root>/common/scripts/install-run-rush.jsany time the guide instructs you to runrush. The wrapper script will install a managed copy of Rush in a temporary directory for you.
- Install / update Rush globally via
Next, get the code:
- Fork this repo
- Clone your fork locally (
git clone https://github.com/<youruser>/azure-sdk-for-js.git) - Open a terminal and move into your local copy (
cd azure-sdk-for-js) - Install and link all dependencies (
rush update)
If you have previously worked in this repo using the npm workflow, the first time you switch to using Rush you should commit or stash any untracked files and then get back to a clean state by running rush reset-workspace before proceeding any further. This will get rid of any latent package-lock files, as well as your existing (incompatible) node_modules directories. You can then proceed down the path outlined below.
Debugging Node.js code in VSCode is well documented. However, starting from version 1.45.1, VSCode can automatically debug Node.js code in most cases without having to write custom launch.json files for that purpose and this is true for our SDKs code as well. A demonstration of that feature can be found in the release notes.
Visual Studio Code has a feature which will automatically fetch and install @types packages for you, using the standard npm package manager. This will cause problems with your node_modules directory, since Rush uses PNPM which lays out this directory quite differently. It's highly recommended that you ensure "Typescript: Disable Automatic Type Acquisition" is checked in your VSCode Workspace Settings (or ensure typescript.disableAutomaticTypeAcquisition is present in your .vscode/settings.json file).
The current version of VSCode for Windows has a bug that may cause a "file locked" error when you run any Rush command that modifies your node_modules directory:
ERROR: Error: Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\XXXXX\node_modules'
Often this is caused by a file lock from a process such as your text editor, command prompt, or "gulp serve"
This bug is fixed in the Insiders build of VSCode (1.34), and will be included in the next release. Until then, you can resolve this by running the "Typescript: Restart TS server" command from the Command Palette to release the lock on the files.
Git for Windows has a bug where repository files may be unintentionally removed by git clean -df when a directory is locally linked. Because Rush creates local links between packages, you may encounter this. It's highly recommended to use the rush reset-workspace command to get your working directory back to a clean state instead. If you prefer to run git clean -df manually, you must first run rush unlink so that the operation can be performed safely.
Run rush update to install the current set of package dependencies in all projects inside the repo.
To add a new dependency (assuming the dependency is published on the NPM registry), navigate to the project's directory and run rush add -p "<packagename>" --caret [--dev]. This will add the dependency at its latest version to the project's package.json, and then automatically run rush update to install the package into the project's node_modules directory. If you know the specific version of the package you want, you can instead run rush add -p "<packagename@^version>" - make sure to use the caret before the version number. Do not use npm install [--save | --save-dev].
To add a dependency on another library within the Azure SDK, you can follow the same procedure as above as long as the library is also published to the NPM registry. Additionally, as long as the local copy of that library satisfies the SemVer range you specify when you run rush add, that library will be locally linked rather than downloaded from the registry. If the library has not yet been published to the NPM registry, you can't use rush add. In this case, you must manually edit the package.json to add the dependency and then run rush update to locally link the library into the project's node_modules directory.
To update a dependency's version, use the same process as adding a new dependency - just specify the new version you want to use. If other libraries also use this dependency, you will likely see the rush update step fail because the versions are now inconsistent. See below to learn how to resolve dependency version conflicts.
To remove a dependency, you must edit the package.json to remove the dependency and then run rush update to remove it from the project's node_modules directory.
If you manually edit dependencies within the package.json for any reason, make sure to run rush update afterwards to update the project's node_modules directory.
Any time you add, update, or remove dependencies, running rush update will generate a diff to the file common/config/rush/pnpm-lock.yaml. You should commit these changes - this file works similarly to NPM's package-lock.json files, except it tracks package versions for all projects in the Rush workspace. Do not check in any package-lock.json files.
When you run rush update, Rush will also ensure that dependency versions are consistent across all of our packages. If they are not, the command will fail and show you all packages which use a conflicting versions of dependencies. There are a few ways to resolve this:
First and foremost, you should make every attempt to match the versions of any dependencies your library has to those that already exist in the repository. Because we use approximate version range specifiers (e.g. "^8.0.0"), this is almost always what you want to do. There are only a few cases where this won't work.
If you know your library requires functionality introduced in a newer version of the dependency, you can update the version range specifier for your library and then run rush sync-versions to update all other projects that use that dependency. Keep in mind that for minor versions, this is usually safe, but major version bumps may introduce breaking changes and thus any other libraries that use that dependency should be tested thoroughly before merging. Make sure to run rush update manually after this action to update all affected projects' node_modules directories.
On the other hand, if you know your library does not work with the existing version of the dependency and you explicitly need an older version, you have a few options. The preferred option would be to update your library so that it works with the existing version of the dependency. If this is not feasible, Rush can be instructed to permit an exception to the "consistent versions" policy. Reach out to a member of the engineering system team to describe your situation and they will be able to help you add the exception.
Run rush build from anywhere in the repo to build any projects that have been modified since the last build.
Run rush rebuild from anywhere in the repo to rebuild all projects from scratch.
Run rush build -t <packagename> to build a single project, and all local projects that it depends on. You can pass -t multiple times to build multiple projects. This works for rush rebuild as well. Keep in mind that Rush refers to packages by their full names, so packages will be named something like @azure/<servicename>.
By default, Rush only displays things written to STDERR. If you want to see the full output, pass --verbose to any of the build commands.
If you want to run the tests of a specific project, go to that project's folder and execute rushx test. All of the tests will automatically run both in NodeJS and in the browser. To target these environments individually, you can run rushx test:node and rushx test:browser.
By default, these npm scripts run previously recorded tests. The recordings have been generated by using a custom recording library called test-utils-recorder. We will examine how to run recorded tests and live tests in the following sections.
Most of the tests in our projects run in playback mode by default, i.e they make no network requests to the real services. For HTTP requests made in each test case, there is a recorded response that reproduces the service behavior. The readme file in the test folder of each package will indicate whether the package uses recorded tests or not.
To use the rushx test command to run the tests against live resources, you must:
- Set the environment variable
TEST_MODEtolive. - Have previously created the necessary Azure resources needed by the tests.
- Set the appropriate environment variables to point to these resources.
The readme file in the test folder of each package lists the Azure resources and the environment variables needed.
Note: Our projects use dotenv to allow you to use
.envfiles to set environment variables. Find thesample.envfile nearest to the project you want to test to see a template of the expected.envfile.
You can create the necessary Azure resources on your own, or automate this process by using the script called New-TestResources.ps1 which uses ARM templates defined in a file named test-resources.json that exists in each project's folder. Follow the steps in Example 1 of New-TestResources.ps1 to set up a service principal and deploy the live test resources.
If you modify the network calls (both the number of calls or their shape) either by changing the tests or source code of the project you're working on, the recordings will need to be re-generated.
Regenerating the recordings has the same requirements as running the live tests. You will be using the same test npm script with the environment variables pointing to previously created Azure resources. The only difference is that the TEST_MODE environment variable needs to be set to record. When this process finishes without errors, the recordings will be updated.
For more information the recorder, please visit the test-utils-recorder's readme.
Most package scripts are exposed as Rush commands. Use rushx <scriptname> in place of npm run <scriptname> to run the package script in all projects. Navigate to a project's directory and substitute rushx for rush to run the script for just the current project. Run rush <scriptname> --help for more information about each script.
All projects have at least the following scripts:
audit: Runnpm auditon the project (with some workarounds for Rush)build: Build the project's production artifacts (Node and browser bundles)build:test: Build the project's test artifacts onlycheck-format: Show Prettier formatting issues within the projectclean: Remove generated and temporary filesexecute:samples: Execute samples using the source codeformat: Reformat project files with Prettierintegration-test:browser: Execute browser integration testsintegration-test:node: Execute Node integration testsintegration-test: Execute all integration testslint:fix: Fix ESLint issues within the projectlint: Show ESLint issues within the projectpack: Runnpm packon the projecttest:browser: Execute browser dev teststest:node: Execute Node dev teststest: Execute all dev testsunit-test:browser: Execute browser unit testsunit-test:node: Execute Node unit testsunit-test: Execute all unit tests
Projects may optionally have the following scripts:
extract-api: Run API Extractor to show API issues and generate API reports
If you're having problems and want to restore your repo to a clean state without any packages installed, run rush uninstall. Downloaded packages will be deleted from the cache and all node_modules directories will be removed. Now you can start clean by re-downloading and installing dependencies from scratch with rush update. This will not make any changes to any other files in your working directory.
If you want to get back to a completely clean state, you can instead run rush reset-workspace. This will perform the same operations as above, but will additionally run git clean -dfx to remove all untracked files and directories in your working directory. This is a destructive operation - use it with caution!!
Generally speaking, the following commands are roughly equivalent:
| NPM command | Rush command | Rush command effect |
|---|---|---|
npm install |
rush update |
Install dependencies for all projects in the Rush workspace |
npm install --save[-dev] <package> |
rush add -p <package> --caret [--dev] |
Add or update a dependency in the current project |
npm build |
rush [re]build |
Build all projects in the Rush workspace |
rush [re]build -t <package> |
Build named project and any projects it depends on | |
rushx build |
Build the current project only | |
npm test |
rush test |
Run dev tests in all projects in the Rush workspace |
rush test -t <packagename> |
Run dev tests in named project and any projects it depends on | |
rushx test |
Run dev tests in the current project only | |
npm run <scriptname> |
rush <scriptname> |
Run named script in all projects in the Rush workspace |
rush <scriptname> -t <packagename> |
Run named script in named project and any projects it depends on | |
rushx <scriptname> |
Run named script in the current project only | |
npx <command> |
node_modules/.bin/<command> |
Run named command provided by installed dependency package |
To add a new library to the repo, update rush.json in the root of the repo and add a new entry to the projects array at the bottom of the file. The package name must be the full name of the package as specified in its package.json. Your new library must follow our repository structure (specifically, it must be located at sdk/<servicename>/<packagename>) and your library's package.json must contain the required scripts as documented above. Once the library is added, run rush update to install and link dependencies. If your new library has introduced a dependency version conflict, this command will fail. See above to learn how to resolve dependency version conflicts.
Rush assumes that anything printed to STDERR is a warning. Your package scripts should avoid writing to STDERR unless emitting warnings or errors, since this will cause Rush to flag them as warnings during the execution of your build or script command. If your library uses a tool that can't be configured this way, you can still append 2>&1 to the command which will redirect all output to STDOUT. You won't see warnings show up, but Rush will still consider the command to have failed as long as it returns a nonzero exit code.
In general, it's recommended to avoid using NPM hook scripts (those starting with pre / post). The build system will always explicitly run the install, build, build:test, pack, audit, lint, unit-test, and integration-test scripts at the appropriate times during the build. Adding hooks that performs steps like installing dependencies or compiling the source code will at best slow down the build, and at worst may lead to difficult to diagnose build failures.
Because Rush uses PNPM to download and manage dependencies, it's especially important to make sure that none of your package scripts are calling npm install when your library is built via the Rush toolchain. Most commonly this occurs in a prepack or prebuild script. Ensure your library does not contain these scripts - or if you determine that such a script is required, ensure that it doesn't run npm install.
Rollup must be manually configured to work correctly when symlinks are created in your node_modules (as Rush does). Each of your Rollup configuration objects must contain the following setting:
preserveSymlinks: false
Additionally, when adopting the Rush workflow you will likely see Rollup emitting many "not exported" errors like the following when generating your browser bundle:
equal is not exported by ..\..\..\common\temp\node_modules\.registry.npmjs.org\assert\1.4.1\node_modules\assert\assert.js
123: assert.equal(foo, bar);
^
This is due to an open issue with one of Rollup's plugins (if you want the details, refer to this GitHub issue). To work around the issue, locate the Rollup configuration object for your browser bundle and modify the configuration for the nodeResolve plugin to match the following:
nodeResolve({
mainFields: ['module', 'browser'],
preferBuiltins: false
}),
For information about packages are versioned and tagged see Javascript Releases
The daily dev build for JS are published directly to npmjs.com under the dev tag. These are published daily whenever there is a change in the package. You can test them by downloading or taking a dependency the "dev" tagged version of the package, or pinning to particular dev version.
The daily dev packages are considered volatile and taking dependencies on a dev package should be considered a temporary arrangement.