We welcome and appreciate all contributions to Deno.
This page serves as a helper to get you started on contributing.
There are numerous repositories in the denoland
organization that are part of the Deno ecosystem.
Repositories have different scopes, use different programming languages and have varying difficulty level when it comes to contributions.
To help you decide which repository might be the best to start contributing (and/or falls into your interest), here's a short comparison (languages in bold comprise most of the codebase):
This is the main repository that provides the deno
CLI.
If you want to fix a bug or add a new feature to deno
this is the repository
you want to contribute to.
Languages: Rust, JavaScript
The standard library for Deno.
Languages: TypeScript, WebAssembly.
Frontend for official Deno webpage: https://deno.land/
Languages: TypeScript, TSX, CSS
Linter that powers deno lint
subcommand.
Languages: Rust
Documentation generator that powers deno doc
subcommand and
https://doc.deno.land
Languages: Rust
Frontend for documentation generator: https://doc.deno.land
Languages: TypeScript, TSX, CSS
Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine. Very technical and low-level.
Languages: Rust
Library that provides bijection layer between V8 and Rust objects. Based on
serde
library. Very technical and low-level.
Languages: Rust
Official Docker images for Deno.
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Read the style guide.
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Please don't make the benchmarks worse.
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Ask for help in the community chat room.
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If you are going to work on an issue, mention so in the issue comments before you start working on the issue.
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If you are going to work on a new feature, create an issue and discuss with other contributors before you start working on the feature; we appreciate all contributions, but not all proposed features are getting accepted. We don't want you to spend hours working on a code that might not be accepted.
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Please be professional in the forums. We follow Rust's code of conduct (CoC). Have a problem? Email [email protected].
Before submitting a PR to any of the repos, please make sure the following is done:
- Give the PR a descriptive title.
Examples of good PR title:
- fix(std/http): Fix race condition in server
- docs(console): Update docstrings
- feat(doc): Handle nested re-exports
Examples of bad PR title:
- fix #7123
- update docs
- fix bugs
- Ensure there is a related issue and it is referenced in the PR text.
- Ensure there are tests that cover the changes.
Submitting a PR to deno
Additionally to the above make sure that:
-
cargo test
passes - this will run full test suite fordeno
including unit tests, integration tests and Web Platform Tests -
Run
./tools/format.js
- this will format all of the code to adhere to the consistent style in the repository -
Run
./tools/lint.js
- this will check Rust and JavaScript code for common mistakes and errors usingclippy
(for Rust) anddlint
(for JavaScript)
Submitting a PR to deno_std
Additionally to the above make sure that:
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All of the code you wrote is in
TypeScript
(ie. don't useJavaScript
) -
deno test --unstable --allow-all
passes - this will run full test suite for the standard library -
Run
deno fmt
in the root of repository - this will format all of the code to adhere to the consistent style in the repository. -
Run
deno lint
- this will check TypeScript code for common mistakes and errors.
It is important to document all public APIs and we want to do that inline with the code. This helps ensure that code and documentation are tightly coupled together.
All publicly exposed APIs and types, both via the deno
module as well as the
global/window
namespace should have JSDoc documentation. This documentation is
parsed and available to the TypeScript compiler, and therefore easy to provide
further downstream. JSDoc blocks come just prior to the statement they apply to
and are denoted by a leading /**
before terminating with a */
. For example:
/** A simple JSDoc comment */
export const FOO = "foo";
Find more at: https://jsdoc.app/
Use this guide for writing documentation comments in Rust code.