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Contributing

We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project.

Development Environment

If you are contributing documentation (rather than samples) and want to be able to view it in your browser, the easiest way to do so is to run the provided development server.

We use GitHub Pages to make this documentation available, which uses Jekyll under the hood.

If you have Docker installed, clone this repository and run the serve.sh file at the root of the repository. This script does two things:

  • It builds the provided Docker image (unless you already have it) and tags it as googleapis-site.
  • It runs the googleapis-site image.

The Jekyll development server uses port 4000 by default; point your web browser to http://localhost:4000, and you should see the site.

Arguments

Any arguments provided to serve.sh (or docker run) are forwarded to Jekyll. Note that the Docker entrypoint automatically provides --destination and --host arguments, and you should not change these. Additionally, changing ports is not advised (call docker run yourself with a customized -p switch if you need to use custom ports).

Hot reloading

The Jekyll development server supports "hot reloading" (where local changes will be automatically reflected in your browser without having to manually reload). You can activate this by sending the --livereload flag (-l for short) to serve.sh.

Local Installation

It is possible to run the development server locally also. The general gist of how to do so correctly is:

  • Install rbenv.
  • Use rbenv to install an appropriate version of Ruby.
  • gem install bundler
  • bundle install

Once this is done, you can run bundle exec jekyll serve to run the development server (as above, include --livereload to get automatic reloading).

Note: The Jekyll default setup will write the static site in-place to the _site subdirectory. (The Docker image redirects this to an arbitrary spot in the image so as not to pollute the local disk.)

Contributor License Agreement

Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License Agreement. You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution, this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the project. Head over to https://cla.developers.google.com/ to see your current agreements on file or to sign a new one.

You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you have already submitted one (even if it was for a different project), you probably do not need to do it again.

Code reviews

All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult GitHub Help for more information on using pull requests.

Formatting

We use prettier to format Markdown, JavaScript, and (most) HTML, in order to ensure a consistent style throughout our source. You can add prettier as a plugin in most development environments.