lz.n/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing guide

Contributions are more than welcome!

Commit messages / PR title

Please ensure your pull request title conforms to Conventional Commits.

CI

CI checks are run using nix.

Development

Dev environment

I use the following tools:

Formatting

• .editorconfig (with editorconfig-checker)
• stylua [Lua]
• alejandra [Nix]

Linting

• luacheck [Lua]
• markdownlint [Markdown]

Static type checking

• lua-language-server

Nix devShell

• Requires flakes to be enabled.

This project provides a flake.nix that can bootstrap all of the above development tools.

To enter a development shell:

nix develop

To apply formatting, while in a devShell, run

pre-commit run --all

If you use direnv, just run direnv allow and you will be dropped in this devShell.

Running tests

I use busted for testing, but with Neovim as the Lua interpreter.

The easiest way to run tests is with Nix (see below).

If you do not use Nix, you can also run the test suite using luarocks test. For more information on how to set up Neovim as a Lua interpreter, see

• The neorocks tutorial.

Or

• nlua.

Note

The Nix devShell sets up luarocks test to use Neovim as the interpreter.

Running tests and checks with Nix

If you just want to run all checks that are available, run:

nix flake check -L --option sandbox false

To run tests locally, using Nix:

nix build .#checks.<your-system>.integration-nightly -L --option sandbox false

For example:

nix build .#checks.x86_64-linux.integration-nightly -L --option sandbox false

For formatting and linting:

nix build .#checks.<your-system>.pre-commit-check -L

For static type checking:

nix build .#checks.<your-system>.type-check-nightly -L