Contribution guide

Setting up the environment

1. Run make install-uv to install uv if not already installed 1. Run make install to install all dependencies and pre-commit hooks

Code contributions

Workflow

  1. Fork the Litestar Vite repository

  2. Clone your fork locally with git

  3. Set up the environment

  4. Make your changes

  5. Run make lint to run linters and formatters. This step is optional and will be executed automatically by git before you make a commit, but you may want to run it manually in order to apply fixes automatically by git before you make a commit, but you may want to run it manually in order to apply fixes

  6. Commit your changes to git

  7. Push the changes to your fork

  8. Open a pull request. Give the pull request a descriptive title indicating what it changes. If it has a corresponding open issue, the issue number should be included in the title as well. For example a pull request that fixes issue bug: Increased stack size making it impossible to find needle #100 could be titled fix(#100): Make needles easier to find by applying fire to haystack

Tip

Pull requests and commits all need to follow the Conventional Commit format

Guidelines for writing code

  • All code should be fully typed. This is enforced via mypy.

  • All code should be tested. This is enforced via pytest.

  • All code should be properly formatted. This is enforced via Ruff.

Writing and running tests

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Project documentation

The documentation is located in the /docs directory and is ReST and Sphinx. If you’re unfamiliar with any of those, ReStructuredText primer and Sphinx quickstart are recommended reads.

Running the docs locally

To run or build the docs locally, you need to first install the required dependencies:

make install

Then you can serve the documentation with make docs-serve, or build them with make docs.

Creating a new release

  1. Ensure that all local changes are committed and your commit tree is not dirty

  2. Run make release bump=major|minor|patch to bump the version for the python and javascript packages. This will automatically update the version and create a commit.

    Note

    The version should follow semantic versioning and PEP 440.

  3. Push the changes to the main branch

  4. Draft a new release on GitHub

    • Use vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (e.g. v1.2.3) as both the tag and release title

    • Fill in the release description. You can use the “Generate release notes” function to get a draft for this

  5. Publish the release

  6. Go to Actions and approve the release workflow

  7. Check that the workflow runs successfully