Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Merge pull request #616 from dstricks/update-developer-readme
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Update README-developers
  • Loading branch information
dstricks authored Oct 8, 2022
2 parents 73ed1be + 50859d8 commit fc7976b
Showing 1 changed file with 24 additions and 6 deletions.
30 changes: 24 additions & 6 deletions README-developers.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,24 +1,42 @@
# Eel Developers

## Setting up a development environment
## Setting up your environment

In order to start developing with Eel you'll need to checkout the code, set up a development and testing environment, and check that everything is in order.

Clone the repository:
### Clone the repository
```bash
git clone [email protected]:samuelhwilliams/Eel.git
git clone [email protected]:python-eel/Eel.git
```

Create a dev virtual environment. Your process for doing this may vary, but might look something like this (assuming you have `venv` in a global `.gitignore` file):
### (Recommended) Create a virtual environment
It's recommended that you use virtual environments for this project. Your process for setting up a virutal environment will vary depending on OS and tool of choice, but might look something like this:

```bash
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
```

We support Python 3.6+ so developers should ideally run their tests against the latest minor version of each major version we support from there. Tox is configured to run tests against each major version we support. In order to run tox fully, you will need to install multiple versions of Python. See the pinned minor versions in `.python-version`.
**Note**: `venv` is listed in the `.gitignore` file so it's the recommended virtual environment name


## Running tests
### Install project requirements

```bash
pip3 install -r requirements.txt # eel's 'prod' requirements
pip3 install -r requirements-test.txt # pytest and selenium
pip3 install -r requirements-meta.txt # tox
```

### (Recommended) Run Automated Tests
Tox is configured to run tests against each major version we support (3.6+). In order to run Tox as configured, you will need to install multiple versions of Python. See the pinned minor versions in `.python-version` for recommendations.

#### Tox Setup
Our Tox configuration requires [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome) and [ChromeDriver](https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home). See each of those respective project pages for more information on setting each up.

**Note**: Pay attention to the version of Chrome that is installed on your OS because you need to select the compatible ChromeDriver version.

#### Running Tests

To test Eel against a specific version of Python you have installed, e.g. Python 3.6 in this case, run:

Expand Down

0 comments on commit fc7976b

Please sign in to comment.