AdminLTE/docs/how-to-contribute.md

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Contributing to AdminLTE

Contributions are always welcome and recommended! Here is how for beginner's: Get started with open source click here

1. Contribution Requirements :
   • When you contribute, you agree to give a non-exclusive license to AdminLTE.io to use that contribution in any context as we (AdminLTE.io) see appropriate.
   • If you use content provided by another party, it must be appropriately licensed using an open source license.
   • Contributions are only accepted through GitHub pull requests.
   • Finally, contributed code must work in all supported browsers (see above for browser support).

2. Installation :

   • Fork the repository (here is the guide).
   • Clone to your machine

   git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/AdminLTE.git
   

   • Create a new branch

3. Compile dist files (Development) :

   • To compile the dist files you need Node.js 14 or higher/npm (node package manager)
   • Delete ./package-lock.json file
   • npm install (install npm deps)
   • npm run dev (developer mode, autocompile with browsersync support for live demo)
   • Make your changes only in ./build Folder OR package.json OR ./dist/js/demo.js OR package-lock.json OR ./dist/js/pages/ OR ./docs OR in any html files which are necessary for contribution
   • Do not make changes in ./dist/css/ AND ./dist/js/ AND ./plugins Because it contains compiled files and do not include in PR (Pull Request)
   • npm run production (compile css/js files and test all pages are perfectly working fine, before creating a pull request)

4. Create a pull request

Online one-click setup for contributing

You can use Gitpod(an online IDE which is free for Open Source) for working on issues or making PRs (Pull Requests). With a single click it will launch a workspace and automatically:

• clone the AdminLTE repo.
• install the dependencies.
• run npm run dev to start the server.