To get started, read the How this repo works section below to learn about the structure of this repo.
From there, you can take a look at our Good First Issues board and find an issue that interests you!
If you have any questions about the issue, feel free to ask on our Discord server in the #contributors
channel; where you'll be able to get help from our team and other contributors.
We use Turborepo to manage the repository, and help speed up the CI/CD pipeline to ship to production faster 🚢. Turborepo is a project dependency, and doesn't need to be installed separately.
We use pnpm for package management across the repo. pnpm
is similar to npm
or yarn
but with more efficient disk space usage.
With the v5 SDK, we've consolidated everything into a single project at /packages/thirdweb. You can still find the legacy packages at /legacy_packages.
This single package provides a performant & lightweight SDK to interact with any EVM chain across Node, React, and React Native. Learn more about how to use the thirdweb SDK in our documentation.
Let's explore how you can set up the repo on your local machine and start contributing!
This section requires some existing knowledge of Git, Node.js and pnpm.
For OSS contributions, we use a Forking Workflow, meaning each developer will fork the repo and work on their own fork; and then submit a PR to the main repo when they're ready to merge their changes.
To begin:
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Create a fork of this repository to your own GitHub account.
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Clone your fork to your local device.
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Create a new branch on your fork to start working on your changes:
git checkout -b <YOUR BRANCH NAME>
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Install the dependencies:
pnpm install
If you are on windows, use the
--ignore-scripts
flagpnpm install --ignore-scripts
Now you have the repo on your local machine, and you're ready to start making your changes!
Try to include unit test coverage with your changes where appropriate. We use vitest
for testing, look for files with the .test.ts
extension for examples of how to structure your unit tests.
To run your tests, run the following from the package directory (most likely /packages/thirdweb):
pnpm test:dev <YOUR TEST FILE PATH>
Specifying your test file path is optional, but will save time by only running specific tests each time. Before opening your PR, run
pnpm test
from the monorepo root (without specifying your test file) to ensure your changes didn't break any existing tests.
Many of the tests use forked versions of live chains like mainnet. We fork these chains at a specific arbitrary block number so results are consistent across test runs. If you're interacting with on-chain data, you can write tests that interact with real contracts at the same block number by using FORKED_ETHEREUM_CHAIN
. However, if you don't need to interact with existing contracts, we recommend running your tests against ANVIL_CHAIN
.
If you need to use accounts in your tests, use the predefined accounts in test/src/test-wallets.ts
. These are the default anvil accounts that are pre-funded on the local test forks.
If your test depends on a downstream network call, you must mock the call using msw
. You can use one of the existing mocks in test/src/mocks
or create your own. Once you've created a mock request, setup the server and add all your mocks like so:
import { setupServer } from "msw/node";
import { downloadMock, uploadMock } from "../../../test/src/mocks/storage.js";
const server = setupServer(uploadMock("HASH"), downloadMock({ name: "Test NFT" }));
beforeAll(() => server.listen());
afterEach(() => server.resetHandlers());
afterAll(() => server.close());
We use a linter to maintain best practices across projects. Once your changes are complete (or periodically while making changes), run the linter with the following command from the repo root:
pnpm lint
If there are errors, try running pnpm fix
to auto-fix any basic errors. Other linter errors, like missing documentation, will need to be fixed manually. See existing files for examples of inline documentation.
You can test your changes on any of the demo apps within the /apps
directory without linking or publishing your changes to npm. When you run pnpm dev
from the root directory, turbo will start the demo apps and watch the dependent packages for changes. Any time you make a change anywhere in the repo, the apps will hot reload and the changes will be reflected in the browser.
You can also test your changes by publishing a dev package to npm and adding your package as you normally do in your projects.
Once you have your PR up you can add a comment with the text: /release-pr
. This will trigger a GitHub action that will publish a dev version to npm.
You can see the action progress in GitHub's Actions
tab, look for the workflow: release-pr
.
Once the action finishes executing, select it, click on deploy and look for the Deploy pre-release
item. Scroll all the way to the bottom and you should see something like:
success packages published successfully:
🦋 @***-dev/[email protected]
🦋 @***-dev/[email protected]
...
These are the versions the GH action published to npm for testing purposes. Let's assume you're working on the @thirdweb-dev/react
package, you can then run:
yarn add @thirdweb-dev/[email protected]
to install the dev package.
The repository does not yet have a React Native playground, so some additional steps are needed to test any React Native SDK changes.
For ease of setup, we recommend using the React Native SDK template project as a local testing playground. To generate this project, just run npx thirdweb create --react-native
.
To use the local version of the SDK while listening for changes in your React Native project, we'll use wml. To install wml, run npm i -g wml
.
Once installed, edit the project's package.json
so the thirdweb package points to your local version of the repository (rather than a version number). It should look something like this:
"thirdweb": "/Users/me/Desktop/js/packages/thirdweb/"
Now we'll add a wml link between your React Native project and this local repository:
wml add /[Path to this repository on your machine]/packages/thirdweb /[Path to your RN project]/node_modules/thirdweb
Run wml list
to confirm you've added the connection successfully.
Now run wml start
to start the connection between your two projects. wml will watch for changes in the first directory you specified and copy them to the second.
However, for this to work you'll also need to setup watchman on wml (confusing, I know). First, install watchman with homebrew or another installer.
Once watchman is installed, find where wml's src is. You can normally do this by running which wml
to find your node directory, then adding /lib/node_modules/wml/src
from the root path of your current node version. It should look something like this: /Users/me/.nvm/versions/node/v20.13.0/lib/node_modules/wml/src
Now, run watchman on this path with watchman watch /Users/me/.nvm/versions/node/v20.13.0/lib/node_modules/wml/src
Finally, navigate to the V5 SDK package with cd packages/thirdweb
and run it in dev mode to rebuild on changes with pnpm dev:esm
.
You should now have:
wml
running in one terminal window, watching your local SDK and your React Native projectwatchman
set to watch yourwml
src directorypnpm dev:esm
running inpackages/thirdweb
- The "thirdweb" dependency in your RN
package.json
pointing topackages/thirdweb
of your local version of this repository
Try making changes in the SDK to see if they affect your React Native project. If they don't, try deleting your RN project node_modules
, reinstalling via yarn (the preferred package manager for React Native), and trying again.
Once you're satisfied with your changes, you are ready to submit them for review!
- Use changeset to generate a changeset file:
pnpm changeset
We follow semantic versioning for generating versioned releases of our packages (i.e. version = MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
)
- Update
major
for breaking changes - Update
minor
for new features, - Update
patch
for non-breaking bug fixes, etc)
- Commit the changeset along with your changes:
git commit -am "My commit message"
- Push your changes to the SDK:
git push origin <YOUR BRANCH NAME>
- Create a pull request to the
main
branch of the official (not your fork) SDK repo.