CONTRIBUTING.md

How to contribute to giotto

First time setup

Setup webpack

Webpack is a tool to package css, js and other web formats.

Getting Started guide here

Initialize npm in the giotto/statics/configs folder:

> cd giotto/statics/configs
> npm init -y

Install webpack

 > install webpack webpack-cli html-webpack-plugin mini-css-extract-plugin  babel-loader @babel/core --save-dev

You should now have the below structure in statics

statics
├── /configs
    ├── node_modules
    ├── src
    ├── index.html
    ├── package.json

Install npm packages

The npm packages are tracked inside statics/configs/package.json. In order to make sure you have all the npm packages installed, do the following:

> cd giotto/statics/configs
> npm install

This will save all the required npm packages inside the local folder node_modules inside statics.

Compiling with webpack

You can do:

> npm run start

In order to run 1 compile.

Watching with webpack

You can do:

> npx webpack --watch

To watch with webpack.