Development
Contributing
When developing, please:
- Comply with Standard JS. This is checked with superlinter when you create pull requests and commit to natural.
- Comply with
ts-standard
. This is tested when you create pull requests and commit to natural. - Prevent code duplication. Use jscpd to test this. This is tested when you commit to natural.
- Write unit tests for jasmine. Make sure your unit tests pass.
- For compatibility with browsers, do not use the file system
fs
. If you need to read files, use JSON andrequire
. - Write documentation and commit this to the
gh-pages
branch.
The current configuration of the unit tests requires the following environment variable to be set:
export NODE_PATH=.
CD/CD pipeline
The repository uses Github Actions for testing and publishing.
Currently, there three workflows:
- Node CI: tests natural on the four most recent releases of Nodejs. Code coverage is analysed with Istanbul. Results are forwarded to Coveralls. In the README a badge shows the coverage.
- Nodejs package: The natural package is automatically published to NPM when a release is created (tagged).
- Lint Code Base: the repository is linted using the Github super linter which includes
jslint
andjscpd
.
Github workflows can be found at ./.github/workflows
.
Versioning
We apply semantic versioning. Given natural’s version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
- MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
- MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and
- PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.
Using the library in a browser
The package can be used in the browser using Webpack. It is tested using Webpack, Gulp and Jasmine. The test suite is run using the command: npm run test_browser
. The server is at http://localhost:8888. You should uncheck “run tests in random order” in the browser to make it work. There are some tests that are sensitive to the order in which tests are run.