Contributions are always welcome, no matter how large or small. Before contributing, please read the code of conduct.
Install yarn beforehand: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install
To start developing on Babylon you only need to install its dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/babel/babylon
cd babylon
yarn
To run a build, tests and perform lint/flow checks:
yarn test
If you only want to run the tests:
yarn run test-only
Note, this does not actually run a build, so you may have to call yarn run build
after
performing any changes.
To run only a single test, add "only": true
to the options.json
inside any test fixture folder (you may have to create the file if it doesn't exist).
For example, let's say we want to only run the test for the test/fixtures/comments/basic/shebang-import
fixture.
Add "only": true
to its options.json
:
{
"sourceType": "module",
"only": true
}
Then, run the tests using the same command as before:
yarn run test-only
To generate code coverage, be sure to set BABEL_ENV=test
so that code is instrumented during
the rollup build.
BABEL_ENV=test yarn run build && yarn run test-coverage
Writing tests for Babylon is very
similar to Babel.
Inside the tests/fixtures
folder are categories/groupings of test fixtures (es2015, flow,
etc.). To add a test, create a folder under one of these groupings (or create a new one) with a
descriptive name, and add the following:
-
Create an
actual.js
file that contains the code you want Babylon to parse. -
Add an
expected.json
file with the expected parser output. For added convenience, if there is noexpected.json
present, the test runner will generate one for you.
If you are making changes to Babylon which make it necessary to also change things in Babel you will want to link both repositories together. This can be done by doing the following (assuming you have both Babel and Babylon already checked out):
cd babylon/
yarn link
yarn run build
cd ../babel/
make bootstrap
yarn link babylon
cd packages/babel-core/
yarn link babylon
cd ../../packages/babel-template/
yarn link babylon
cd ../../packages/babel-traverse/
yarn link babylon
cd ../../packages/babel-generator/
yarn link babylon
cd ../..
make build
make test
From now on Babel will use your local checkout of Babylon for its tests.