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jQuery - New Wave JavaScript
Contribution Guides
In the spirit of open source software development, jQuery always encourages community code contribution. To help you get started and before you jump into writing code, be sure to read these important contribution guidelines thoroughly:
Running the Unit Tests
Run the unit tests with a local server that supports PHP. No database is required. Pre-configured php local servers are available for Windows and Mac. Here are some options:
- Windows: WAMP download
- Mac: MAMP download
- Linux: Setting up LAMP
- Mongoose (most platforms)
What you need to build your own jQuery
In order to build jQuery, you need to have GNU make 3.8 or later, Node.js 0.4.12 or later, and git 1.7 or later. (Earlier versions might work OK, but are not tested.)
Windows users have two options:
- Install msysgit (Full installer for official Git), GNU make for Windows, and a binary version of Node.js. Make sure all three packages are installed to the same location (by default, this is C:\Program Files\Git).
- Install Cygwin (make sure you install the git, make, and which packages), then either follow the Node.js build instructions or install the binary version of Node.js.
Mac OS users should install Xcode (comes on your Mac OS install DVD, or downloadable from
Apple's Xcode site) and
http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/. Once Homebrew is installed, run brew install git to install git,
and brew install node to install Node.js.
Linux/BSD users should use their appropriate package managers to install make, git, and node, or build from source if you swing that way. Easy-peasy.
How to build your own jQuery
First, clone a copy of the main jQuery git repo by running git clone git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git.
Then, to get a complete, minified, jslinted version of jQuery, simply cd to the jquery directory and type
make. If you don't have Node installed and/or want to make a basic, uncompressed, unlinted version of jQuery, use
make jquery instead of make.
The built version of jQuery will be put in the dist/ subdirectory.
To remove all built files, run make clean.
Building to a different directory
If you want to build jQuery to a directory that is different from the default location, you can specify the PREFIX
directory: make PREFIX=/home/jquery/test/ [command]
With this example, the output files would end up in /home/jquery/test/dist/.
Troubleshooting
Sometimes, the various git repositories get into an inconsistent state where builds don't complete properly
(usually this results in the jquery.js or jquery.min.js being 0 bytes). If this happens, run make clean, then
run make again.
Git for dummies
As the source code is handled by the version control system Git, it's useful to know some features used.
Submodules
The repository uses submodules, which normally are handled directly by the Makefile, but sometimes you want to be able to work with them manually.
Following are the steps to manually get the submodules:
git clone https://github.com/jquery/jquery.gitgit submodule initgit submodule update
Or:
git clone https://github.com/jquery/jquery.gitgit submodule update --init
Or:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/jquery/jquery.git
If you want to work inside a submodule, it is possible, but first you need to checkout a branch:
cd src/sizzlegit checkout master
After you've committed your changes to the submodule, you'll update the jquery project to point to the new commit, but remember to push the submodule changes before pushing the new jquery commit:
cd src/sizzlegit push origin mastercd ..git add src/sizzlegit commit
The makefile has some targets to simplify submodule handling:
make update_submodules
checks out the commit pointed to by jquery, but merges your local changes, if any. This target is executed
when you are doing a normal make.
make pull_submodules
updates the content of the submodules to what is probably the latest upstream code.
make pull
make a make pull_submodules and after that a git pull. if you have no remote tracking in your master branch, you can
execute this command as make pull REMOTE=origin BRANCH=master instead.
cleaning
If you want to purge your working directory back to the status of upstream, following commands can be used (remember everything you've worked on is gone after these):
git reset --hard upstream/mastergit clean -fdx
rebasing
For feature/topic branches, you should always used the --rebase flag to git pull, or if you are usually handling many temporary "to be in a github pull request" branches, run following to automate this:
git config branch.autosetuprebase local(seeman git-configfor more information)
handling merge conflicts
If you're getting merge conflicts when merging, instead of editing the conflicted files manually, you can use the feature
git mergetool. Even though the default tool xxdiff looks awful/old, it's rather useful.
Following are some commands that can be used there:
Ctrl + Alt + M- automerge as much as possibleb- jump to next merge conflicts- change the order of the conflicted linesu- undo an mergeleft mouse button- mark a block to be the winnermiddle mouse button- mark a line to be the winnerCtrl + S- saveCtrl + Q- quit
Questions?
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on the Developing jQuery Core forum or in #jquery on irc.freenode.net.