🚧 Contribution

If you want to contribute to the project please open a ticket first and describe what you want to do or what your idea is. Maybe there already is an existing ticket for your or a very similar topic.

I may decline contributions for features that may not fit into the application, so please make sure to talk to me before starting to code.

Contribution Guidelines

Always use the dev branch to work on the application. The dev branch will contain the latest version of the app while the main branch contains the stable version (which may be outdated in terms of development).
Consider using a separate branch if you are working on a larger feature.
Reference the issue number in your commits please.
When opening a pull request, link to your ticket and describe what you did to solve the problem.

Development

Minimum Requirements

Docker or PHP 7.4
Node (16 LTS)

1. Basic Setup

The following steps assume that you are using Docker for development, which I highly encourage. If you use other ways to work with PHP projects you must adapt the commands to your system. Clone the repository to your machine and run the following commands to start the Docker container system:

cp .env.docker .env
docker-compose up -d --build

Now, install all dependencies from inside the PHP container:

docker exec -it linkace-php composer install

docker exec -it linkace-php php artisan key:generate

Last step: compile all assets. Node 16 LTS is the minimum version required and recommended to use. You may use either NPM or Yarn for installing the asset dependencies.

npm install

npm run dev

2. Working with the Artisan command line

I recommend using the Artisan command line tool in the PHP container only, to make sure that the same environment is used. To do so, use the following example command:

docker exec -it linkace-php php artisan migrate

3. Registering a new user

Currently, you can do this by using the command line:

docker exec -it linkace-php php artisan registeruser [user name] [user email]

Tests

You can run existing tests with the following command:

docker exec -it linkace-php composer run lint
docker exec -it linkace-php composer run test

LinkAce Base Docker image

The Base image for LinkAce contains several packages and PHP extensions needed by LinkAce. It shortens the build time of the release images. This step is not needed by any developer working on LinkAce and is just a documentation for maintainers.

docker buildx build --push --platform "linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/arm/v7" -t linkace/base-image:php-8.1-alpine -f resources/docker/dockerfiles/release-base.Dockerfile .

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