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Contributing to Nest CLI

We would love for you to contribute to Nest and help make it even better than it is today! As a contributor, here are the guidelines we would like you to follow :

Got a Question or Problem ?

Do not open issues for general support questions as we want to keep GitHub issues for bug reports and feature requests. You've got much better chances of getting your question answered on Stack Overflow where the questions should be tagged with tag nestjs.

Stack Overflow is a much better place to ask questions since:

  • questions and answers stay available for public viewing so your question / answer might help someone else
  • Stack Overflow's voting system assures that the best answers are prominently visible.

To save your and our time, we will systematically close all issues that are requests for general support and redirect people to Stack Overflow.

If you would like to chat about the question in real-time, you can reach out via our gitter channel.

Found a Bug?

If you find a bug in the source code, you can help us by submitting an issue. Even better, you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.

Missing a Feature?

You can request a new feature by submitting an issue to our GitHub Repository. If you would like to implement a new feature, please submit an issue with a proposal for your work first, to be sure that we can use it. Please consider what kind of change it is:

  • For a Major Feature, first open an issue and outline your proposal so that it can be discussed. This will also allow us to better coordinate our efforts, prevent duplication of work, and help you to craft the change so that it is successfully accepted into the project. For your issue name, please prefix your proposal with [discussion], for example "[discussion]: your feature idea".
  • Small Features can be crafted and directly submitted as a Pull Request.

Submission Guidelines

Submitting an Issue

Before you submit an issue, please search the issue tracker, maybe an issue for your problem already exists and the discussion might inform you of workarounds readily available.

We want to fix all the issues as soon as possible, but before fixing a bug we need to reproduce and confirm it. In order to reproduce bugs we will systematically ask you to provide a minimal reproduction scenario using a repository or Gist. Having a live, reproducible scenario gives us wealth of important information without going back & forth to you with additional questions like:

  • version of NestJS-CLI used (nest info)
  • and most importantly - a use-case that fails

Unfortunately, we are not able to investigate / fix bugs without a minimal reproduction, so if we don't hear back from you we are going to close an issue that don't have enough info to be reproduced.

You can file new issues by filling out our new issue form.

Submitting a Pull Request (PR)

Before you submit your Pull Request (PR) consider the following guidelines:

  1. Search GitHub for an open or closed PR that relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort.

  2. Fork the nestjs/nest-cli repo.

  3. Get a gpg key to sign your commits, see help.

  4. Create your patch, including appropriate test cases.

  5. Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message

    git commit -am "<message>"

    Note: the optional commit -a command line option will automatically "add" and "rm" edited files.

  6. Push your branch to GitHub:

    git push origin my-fix-branch

    Note: you can use -u to set your branch in upstream and just push for the next times.

  7. In GitHub, send a pull request to nestjs/nest-cli:master.

  • If we suggest changes then:

    • Make the required updates.

    • Rebase your branch and force push to your GitHub repository (this will update your Pull Request):

      git rebase master -i
git push -f

That's it! Thank you for your contribution!

After your pull request is merged

After your pull request is merged, you can safely delete your branch and pull the changes from the main (upstream) repository:

  • Delete the remote branch on GitHub either through the GitHub web UI or your local shell as follows:

    git push origin --delete my-fix-branch

  • Check out the master branch:

    git checkout master -f

  • Delete the local branch:

    git branch -D my-fix-branch

  • Update your master with the latest upstream version:

    git pull --ff upstream master