Anyone can find an issue in the application, the issue is not limited to bugs but also includes UI enhancements, efficient codes or improved structure.
The following procedure must be followed in order to solve an issue.
- Check if the issue has already been reported, if not report the issue on Github.
- Ask one of the mentors to assign it you.
- You can open an issue and tag it as free if you do not wish to solve it.
- The issues marked free are open for you to solve, assign the issue to yourself before beginning the work on it.
- Before you make a Pull request, make sure that there are no linting errors with the files you modified.
On GitHub, navigate to the communities Repository. In the top-right corner of the page, click Fork.
Now, navigate to the forked repository in your profile. In the top-right corner of the page, you will find a green button with the text "Clone or download". Click on it. Copy the link that appears in the popup.
Now, go to your terminal (if you are using a Linux platform) or git bash (if you are using a Windows platform) and execute this command
git clone URL
Replace URL with the copied url
or you can just,
Go to your terminal and execute this command
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/communities
Replace YOUR_USERNAME with your Github username.
Head over to https://nodejs.org/en/ and download the LTS version of nodejs. Run the following in your terminal to verfiy if node has been correctly installed.
$ node -v
$ npm -v
There should be no errors if node was installed correctly.
Then install Angular cli using
$ sudo npm install -g angular@cli
Install all dependencies in package.json file. This can be done by navigating to the cloned communities directory in the command prompt/terminal/console and running the following commands:
$ cd communities
$ npm install
$ ng serve
to setup the Angular developmental server.
After the build completes, you can navigate to http://localhost:4200/ in your browser to check out the application.
And, that's it, you are DONE. You have successfully setup the project.
The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.
Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.
Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.
To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.