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Contributing |
Contributing |
This guide is about contributing to our codebase.
We don’t have any special guidelines - just some setup walk-through!
If you haven’t yet - install brew
.
There’s more than one way to install Node.js:
- Download from the official download page
- Use Homebrew
- Use
nvm
- if you need to allow for several versions to be installed on a single machine
The best way is to use nvm
, but the simplest way is to use Homebrew:
brew install node
Either install npm
or check that you have it installed, using their official guide.
NOTE: For Detox, please use the latest
npm
version6.x.x
(i.e not version 7.0.0 or newer).
npm install lerna@3.x.x --global
For all the internal projects (detox, detox-cli, demos, test) lerna
will create symbolic links in node_modules
instead of npm
copying the content of the projects. This way, any change you do on any code is there immediately. There is no need to update node modules or copy files between projects.
React-Native CLI:
npm install react-native-cli --global
Watchman:
brew install watchman
For iOS, you must install Xcode and related tools. Refer to our Setting Up an iOS Environment guide.
You must also have xcpretty
installed:
gem install xcpretty
For Android, you need to have Java and the Android SDK properly set up. Refer to our Setting Up an Android Development & Testing Environment guide.
git clone git@github.com:wix/detox.git
cd detox
git submodule update --init --recursive
(this makes sure all git submodule dependencies have been properly checked out)
lerna bootstrap
scripts/ci.ios.sh
and scripts/ci.android.sh
are the scripts Detox runs in CI, they will run lerna bootstrap
, unit tests, and E2E tests. Make sure these scripts pass before submitting a PR, this is exactly what Detox is going to run in CI.
The following steps can be run manually in order to build / test the various components of Detox.
Detox Android test project uses React Native sources instead of the precompiled AAR. The test project uses React Native 0.51 and 0.53, both have issues with compilation (fixed in 0.55). In order to fix this issue, from inside detox/test
run:
mv node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/release.gradle node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/release.gradle.bak
lerna run test
Detox JS code is 100% test covered and is set to break the build if coverage gets below, so make sure you run unit tests (lerna run test
) locally before pushing.
Alternatively, to run only the JS tests, run the following from the detox/detox
directory:
npm run unit
or
npm run unit:watch
After running the tests, Jest will create a coverage report you can examine:
cd detox
open coverage/lcov-report/index.html
Detox has a suite of end-to-end tests to test its own API while developing (and for regression); We maintain a special application that is "tested" against Detox’s API, but essentially, it’s the API that is tested, not the app.
To run the tests, you must first build the native code and then run based on your target of choice (Android / iOS):
-
iOS:
cd detox/test npm run build:ios npm run e2e:ios
-
Android:
cd detox/test npm run build:android npm run e2e:android
FYI Android test project includes two flavors:
fromBin
- (standard use case) utilizes the precompiled.aar
fromnode_modules
just like a standard RN project.fromSource
- compiles the project with RN sources fromnode_modules
, this is useful when developing and debugging Espresso idle resource. Here are the prerequisites to compiling React Native from source.
Each build can be triggered separately by running its Gradle assembling task (under detox/test/android/
):
./gradlew assembleFromSourceDebug
-or-
./gradlew assembleFromBinDebug
To run from Android Studio, React Native’s react.gradle
script may require node
to be in path.
On MacOS, environment variables can be exported to desktop applications by adding the following to your .bashrc
/.zshrc
:
launchctl setenv PATH $PATH
Under detox/android
:
./gradlew testFullRelease
This is in fact a monorepo that also sports some example projects (for usage reference), alongside the main test project:
examples/demo-react-native
andexamples/demo-react-native-jest
: Demonstrate usage of Detox in React-Native app projects, withmocha.js
andJest
as the hosting test-runner frameworks, respectively.examples/demo-native-ios
: Demonstrates usage of Detox in a pure-native iOS app.examples/demo-native-android
(broken): Demonstrates usage of Detox in a pure-native Android app.examples/demo-pure-native-android
: Demonstrates usage of the pure Detox-Native project- more...
In order to run E2E tests associated with any of these projects, refer to the project-specific READMEs.
The documentation website is built using Docusaurus.
To run the website locally, run the following commands:
cd website
npm install
npm start
To update a specific page, edit the corresponding markdown file in docs/
. To add a new page, create a new markdown file in docs/
and add a link to it in website/sidebars.json
.
While changes to the website are published automatically on every commit to master
under the Next
version, tagging and locking docs to a specific version is done automatically on every Detox release.
In case you want to update the docs for a specific version, you can change the related files and code under website/versioned_docs/version-<version>/
and website/versioned_sidebars/version-<version>-sidebars.json
.
To update a specific version with the latest changes:
- Remove the version from
versions.json
. - Run
npm run docusaurus docs:version <version>
.