cannery/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contribution Guide

Thanks for contributing to Cannery! Please read over the style tips to help make contributing to Cannery (hopefully) as great of an experience as you found it!

Translations needed!

If you're multilingual, this project can use your translations! Visit weblate for more information.

Style Tips

• In order to cut down on code verbosity and readability, please try to use inline do: blocks for short functions and make your aliases as short as possible without introducing ambiguity.
  • I.e. since there's only one Changeset in the app, please alias Changeset.t(Type.t()) instead of using Ecto.Changeset.t(Long.Type.t())
• Use pipelines when possible. If a function only calls a single method, a pipeline isn't strictly necessary but still encouraged for future modification.
• Please add typespecs to your functions! Even your private functions may be used by others later down the line, and typespecs will be able to help document your code just a little bit better, and improve the debugging process.
  • Typespec arguments can be named like @spec function(arg_name :: type()) :: return_type(). Please use these for generic types, such as map() when the input data isn't immediately obvious.
• When making new models, please take inspiration from the existing models in regards to layout of sections, typespec design, and formatting.
• With Elixir convention, for methods that raise on error please name them like function_that_raises!(), and functions that return a boolean like function_that_returns_boolean?(). For other methods, it's encouraged to use status tuples for other functions like {:ok, result} or {:error, reason_or_changeset} instead of just returning result or nil for easy pattern matching.
• When adding text, please use gettext macros to enable things to be translated in the future. After adding gettext macros, run mix format in order to add your new text strings to the files in priv/gettext.
• Before submitting a PR, please make sure all tests are passing using mix test.

And as always, thank you!

Technical Information

• Created using the Phoenix Framework
• User Registration/Sign in via phx_gen_auth.
• Dockerfile and example docker-compose.yml
• Automatic migrations in MIX_ENV=prod or Docker image
• JS linting with standard.js, HEEx linting with heex_formatter

Instructions

1. Clone the repo
2. Install the elixir and erlang binaries. I recommend using asdf version manager, which will use the .tool-versions file to install the correct versions of Erlang, Elixir and npm for this project!
3. Run mix deps.get and mix compile to fetch all dependencies
4. Run mix setup to initialize your database.
5. Run mix phx.server to start the development server.

Configuration

For development, I recommend setting environment variables with direnv.

By default, Cannery will always bind to all external IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in dev and prod mode, respectively. If you would like to use different values, they will need to be overridden in config/dev.exs and config/runtime.exs for dev and prod modes, respectively.

MIX_ENV=dev

In dev mode, Cannery will listen for these environment variables at runtime.

• HOST: External url to generate links with. Set this especially if you're behind a reverse proxy. Defaults to localhost. External URLs will always be generated with https:// and port 443.
• PORT: Internal port to bind to. Defaults to 4000.
• DATABASE_URL: Controls the database url to connect to. Defaults to ecto://postgres:postgres@localhost/cannery_dev.
• ECTO_IPV6: Controls if Ecto should use IPv6 to connect to PostgreSQL. Defaults to false.
• POOL_SIZE: Controls the pool size to use with PostgreSQL. Defaults to 10.
• REGISTRATION: Controls if user sign-up should be invite only or set to public. Set to public to enable public registration. Defaults to invite.
• LOCALE: Sets a custom locale. Defaults to en_US.

MIX_ENV=test

In test mode (or in the Docker container), Cannery will listen for the same environment variables as dev mode, but also include the following at runtime:

• TEST_DATABASE_URL: REPLACES DATABASE_URL. Controls the database url to connect to. Defaults to ecto://postgres:postgres@localhost/cannery_test.
• MIX_TEST_PARTITION: Only used if TEST_DATABASE_URL is not specified. Appended to the default database url if you would like to partition your test databases. Defaults to not set.

MIX_ENV=prod

In prod mode (or in the Docker container), Cannery will listen for the same environment variables as dev mode, but also include the following at runtime:

• SECRET_KEY_BASE: Secret key base used to sign cookies. Must be generated with docker run -it shibaobun/cannery mix phx.gen.secret and set for server to start.