TandoorRecipes/docs/contribute.md

If you like this application and want it to improve, feel free to contribute to its development.

!!! success "Contribution List" If you help bring this project forward you deserve to be credited for it. Feel free to add yourself to CONTRIBUTERS.md or message me to add you if you have contributed anything.

Issues

The most basic but also very important way of contributing is reporting issues and commenting on ideas and feature requests over on the GitHub issues.

Without Feedback improvement can't happen, so don't hesitate to say what you want to say.

Contributing Code

Code contributions are always welcome. There is no special rules for what you need to do, just do your best and we will work together to get your idea and code merged into the project.

!!! info The dev setup is a little messy as this application combines the best (at least in my opinion) of django and Vue.js.

Django

This application is developed using the Django framework for Python. They have excellent documentation on how to get started, so I will only give you the basics here.

1. Clone this repository wherever you like and install the Python language for your OS (at least version 3.8)
2. Open it in your favorite editor/IDE (e.g. PyCharm)
   1. If you want, create a virtual environment for all your packages.
3. Install all required packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run the migrations: python manage.py migrate
5. Start the development server: python manage.py runserver

There is no need to set any environment variables. By default, a simple sqlite database is used and all settings are populated from default values.

Vue.js

Some of the more complex pages use Vue.js to enhance the frontend.

In order to work on these pages you will have to install a Javascript package manager of your choice. The following examples use yarn.

Run yarn install to install the dependencies. After that you can use yarn serve to start the development server and go ahead and test your changes. Before committing please make sure to pack the source using yarn build.

API Client

The API Client is generated automatically from the openapi interface provided by the django rest framework. For this openapi-generator is used.

Install it using your desired setup method (for example using npm install @openapitools/openapi-generator-cli -g).

Navigate to vue/src/utils/openapi.

Generate the schema using openapi-generator-cli generate -g typescript-axios -i http://127.0.0.1:8000/openapi/ (replace your dev server url if required)

Contribute Documentation

The documentation is build from the markdown files in the docs folder of the GitHub repository.

!!! warning "Deployment Branch" The documentation is currently build from the develop branch of the GitHub repository as it is evolving rapidly. This will likely change in the future to prevent issues with documentation being released before the features.

In order to contribute to the documentation you can fork the repository and edit the markdown files in the browser.

If you want to test the documentation locally run mkdocs serve from the project root.

Contribute Translations

If you know any foreign languages that is not yet translated feel free to contribute translations.

Translations are managed on translate.tandoor.dev, a self hosted instance of Weblate.

!!! info "Weblate functionality" Translations have only recently been migrated to weblate so I do not 100% understand each feature. Please feel free to contact me if you need any help getting started.

You can simply register an account and then follow these steps to add translations:

1. After registering you are asked to select your languages. This is optional but allows weblate to only show you relevant translations
2. In the navigation click on Projects and then Browse all projects
3. Select Tandoor and on the top right hand corner select Watch project Tandoor (click on Not watching)
4. Go back to the dashboard. It now shows you the relevant translations for your languages. Click the pencil icon to get started.

!!!! info "Creating a new languagte" To create a new language you must first select Tandoor (the project) and then a component. Here you will have the option to add the language. Afterwards you can also simply add it to the other components as well.

There is also a lot of documentation available from Weblate directly.

It is also possible to provide the translations directly by creating a new language using manage.py makemessages -l <language_code> -i venv. Once finished, simply open a PR with the changed files.