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	Contributing to Pinafore
Dev server
To run a dev server with hot reloading:
yarn run dev
Now it's running at localhost:4002.
Linux users: for file changes to work,
you'll probably want to run export CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING=1
because of this issue.
Linting
Pinafore uses JavaScript Standard Style.
Lint:
yarn run lint
Automatically fix most linting issues:
yarn run lint-fix
Integration tests
Integration tests use TestCafé and a live local Mastodon instance
running on localhost:3000.
Running integration tests
The integration tests require running Mastodon itself,
meaning theMastodon development guide
is relevant here. In particular, you'll need a recent
version of Ruby, Redis, and Postgres running. For a full list of deps, see bin/setup-mastodon-in-travis.sh.
Run integration tests, using headless Chrome by default:
npm test
Run tests for a particular browser:
BROWSER=chrome yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=chrome:headless yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=firefox yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=firefox:headless yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=safari yarn run test-browser
BROWSER=edge yarn run test-browser
If the script isn't able to set up the Postgres database, try running:
sudo su - postgres
Then:
psql -d template1 -c "CREATE USER pinafore WITH PASSWORD 'pinafore' CREATEDB;"
Testing in development mode
In separate terminals:
1. Run a Mastodon dev server:
yarn run run-mastodon
2. Run a Pinafore dev server:
yarn run dev
3. Run a debuggable TestCafé instance:
npx testcafe --hostname localhost --skip-js-errors --debug-mode chrome tests/spec
Test conventions
The tests have a naming convention:
0xx-test-name.js: tests that don't modify the Mastodon database (read-only)1xx-test-name.js: tests that do modify the Mastodon database (read-write)
In principle the 0- tests don't have to worry about
clobbering each other, whereas the 1- ones do.
Mastodon used for testing
There are two parts to the Mastodon data used for testing:
- A Postgres dump and a tgz containing the media files, located in 
fixtures - A script that populates the Mastodon backend with test data (
restore-mastodon-data.js). 
The reason we don't use a Postgres dump for everything is that Mastodon will ignore changes made after a certain period of time, and we don't want our tests to randomly start breaking one day. Running the script ensures that statuses, favorites, boosts, etc. are all "fresh".
Updating the test data
You probably don't want to do this, as the 0xx tests are pretty rigidly defined against the test data.
Write a 1xx test instead and insert what you need on-the-fly.
If you really need to, though, you can either:
- Add new test data to 
mastodon-data.js 
or
- Comment out 
await restoreMastodonData()inrun-mastodon.js - Make your changes manually to the live Mastodon
 - Run the steps in the next section to back it up to 
fixtures/ 
Updating the Mastodon version
- Run 
rm -fr mastodonto clear out all Mastodon data - Comment out 
await restoreMastodonData()inrun-mastodon.jsto avoid actually populating the database with statuses/favorites/etc. - Update the 
GIT_TAGinrun-mastodon.jsto whatever you want - Run 
yarn run run-mastodon - Run 
yarn run backup-mastodon-datato overwrite the data infixtures/ - Uncomment 
await restoreMastodonData()inrun-mastodon.js - Commit all changed files
 - Run 
rm -fr mastodon/andyarn run run-mastodonto confirm everything's working 
Check mastodon.log if you have any issues.
Unit tests
There are also some unit tests that run in Node using Mocha. You can find them in tests/unit and
run them using yarn run test-unit.
Debugging Webpack
The Webpack Bundle Analyzer report.html and stats.json are available publicly via e.g.:
This is also available locally after yarn run build at .sapper/client/report.html.
Codebase overview
Pinafore uses SvelteJS and SapperJS. Most of it is a fairly typical Svelte/Sapper project, but there are some quirks, which are described below. This list of quirks is non-exhaustive.
Prebuild process
The template.html is itself templated. The "template template" has some inline scripts, CSS, and SVGs
injected into it during the build process. SCSS is used for global CSS and themed CSS, but inside of the
components themselves, it's just vanilla CSS because I couldn't figure out how to get Svelte to run a SCSS
preprocessor.
Lots of small files
Highly modular, highly functional, lots of single-function files. Tends to help with tree-shaking and code-splitting, as well as avoiding circular dependencies.
Inferno is loaded dynamically
This is a Svelte project, but emoji-mart is used for the emoji picker, and it's written in React. So we
lazy-load the React-compatible Inferno library when we load emoji-mart.
Some third-party code is bundled
For various reasons, a11y-dialog, autosize, and timeago are forked and bundled into the source code.
This was either because something needed to be tweaked or fixed, or I was trimming unused code and didn't
see much value in contributing it back, because it was too Pinafore-specific.
Every Sapper page is "duplicated"
To get a nice animation on the nav bar when you switch columns, every page is lazy-loaded as LazyPage.html.
This "lazy page" is merely delayed a few frames to let the animation run. Therefore there is a duplication
between src/routes and src/routes/_pages. The "lazy page" is in the former, and the actual page is in the
latter. One imports the other.
There are multiple stores
Originally I conceived of separating out the virtual list into a separate npm package, so I gave it its
own Svelte store (virtualListStore.js). This never happened, but it still has its own store. This is useful
anyway, because each store has its state maintained in an LRU cache that allows us to keep the scroll position
in the virtual list e.g. when the user hits the back button.
Also, the main store.js store is explicitly
loaded by every component that uses it. So there's no store inheritance; every component just declares
whatever store it uses. The main store.js is the primary one.
There is a global event bus
It's in eventBus.js. This is useful for some stuff that is hard to do with standard Svelte or DOM events.