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Developers' Guide

adrian-tiberius edited this page Dec 2, 2016 · 37 revisions

Developers' guide

This document is the entry point for developers of Status. This guide is for anyone who is interested in building, developing, debugging or submitting a bug report, pull request or contributing to Status with code.

This guide is written with OS X in mind.

Build and Test

Requirements

Dependencies & Setup

$ git clone [email protected]:status-im/status-react.git -b master && cd status-react
# or 
$ git clone [email protected]:status-im/status-react.git -b develop && cd status-react

$ lein deps && npm install && ./re-natal deps
$ mvn -f modules/react-native-status/ios/RCTStatus dependency:unpack
$ cd ios && pod install && cd ..

Building Status for Release

# fill in store file properties in android/gradle.properties
$ lein prod-build
$ react-native run-android --variant=release
# for iOS, build in Xcode

Building Status for Development

$ ./re-natal use-android-device <device> # (genymotion, real or avd)
# or
$ ./re-natal use-ios-device <device> # (simulator or real)

$ ./re-natal use-figwheel

# new tab, run figwheel REPL
$ BUILD_IDS="ios,android" lein repl

# new tab, run react native packager
$ react-native start

# new tab, enable communication to react-native and figwheel
# for android
$ adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081
$ adb reverse tcp:3449 tcp:3449
$ react-native run-android

# for ios
$ react-native run-ios

Access Geth on Device

adb forward tcp:8545 tcp:8545
build/bin/geth attach http://localhost:8545

Contributing

Please make sure your contributions adhere to our coding guidelines:

  • Code must be idiomatic Clojure, please refer to the style guidelines (i.e. use lein eastwood & lein kibit).
  • Code must be documented.
  • Pull requests need to be based on and opened against the master branch.
  • Commit messages should be prefixed with the root namespace(s) under status-im that they modify.
    • e.g. "contacts, ios: add contact stylistic changes"

Issues

Only Github is used to track issues. (Please include the commit and branch when reporting an issue.)

Overv.io is used to overview issues in multiple repositories.

Code formatting

Please run lein eastwood and lein kibit before contributing.

Branch naming

Branch format must be under CATEGORY/PLAIN-TEXT-#ISSUE_NUMBER acceptable branches are;

feature/discover or bug/broken-form-#113

The following categories are;

  • feature/ for implementation of features
  • bug/ for fixing bugs
  • tests/ for unit/UI tests
  • experiment/ for non-features
  • wip/ for longer lived branches
  • junk/ for irrelevant/soon-to-be-deleted branches

Pull Requests

Pull Requests should by default commit on the master branch. The master branch is used for history, tags for releases. Each Pull Request must be rebased against master and squashed into a single commit, prefixed with the root namespace(s) under status-im that they modify. e.g.

"contacts, ios: add contact stylistic changes"

Walkthrough

Start by first pulling down master

$ git checkout master
$ git fetch origin
$ git merge master

Then isolate the bug/feature work you will do into a branch;

$ git checkout -b bug/missing-contact-#116

Keep your branch fresh against master

$ git fetch origin
$ git rebase origin/master

If multiple people are working on the same feature branch don't forget to also

$ git rebase origin bug/missing-contact-#116

When you are reading to make your pull request;

$ git push bug/missing-contact-#116

After PR has been reviewed do a final cleanup and squash your commit

$ git rebase -i origin/master

Repository Overview

The Status application is divided into 6 core repositories;

  • status-react - our main react native application writtein in Clojurescript, Java & Objective C

  • go-ethereum - our branch of go-ethereum which contains our custom modifications in go-ethereum/status-develop

  • status-go - represents our binding to the go-ethereum lib and exposes methods to status-react to Java / Objective C.

  • status-lib - implements our application protocols for chatbots, has been absorbed into status-react until application protocol settles

  • react-native-status - the intent behind this repo was to seperate Java/Objective C code into a react native module, it may be absorbed into status-react in future

  • status-server - is our intermediary server primarily used for contact discovery.

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