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Development

We use go modules to vendor libraries for Vikunja, so you'll need at least go 1.11 to use these. If you don't intend to add new dependencies, go 1.9 and above should be fine.

To contribute to Vikunja, fork the project and work on the master branch.

A lot of developing tasks are automated using a Magefile, so make sure to [take a look at it]({{< ref "mage.md">}}).

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Libraries

We keep all libraries used for Vikunja around in the vendor/ folder to still be able to build the project even if some maintainers take their libraries down like it happened in the past.

Tests

See [testing]({{< ref "test.md">}}).

Development using go modules

If you're able to use go modules, you can clone the project wherever you want to and work from there.

Development-setup without go modules

Some internal packages are referenced using their respective package URL. This can become problematic. To “trick” the Go tool into thinking this is a clone from the official repository, download the source code into $GOPATH/code.vikunja.io/api. Fork the Vikunja repository, it should then be possible to switch the source directory on the command line.

{{< highlight bash >}} cd $GOPATH/src/code.vikunja.io/api {{< /highlight >}}

To be able to create pull requests, the forked repository should be added as a remote to the Vikunja sources, otherwise changes cant be pushed.

{{< highlight bash >}} git remote rename origin upstream git remote add origin git@git.kolaente.de:/api.git git fetch --all --prune {{< /highlight >}}

This should provide a working development environment for Vikunja. Take a look at the Magefile to get an overview about the available tasks. The most common tasks should be mage test:unit which will start our test environment and mage build:build which will build a vikunja binary into the working directory. Writing test cases is not mandatory to contribute, but it is highly encouraged and helps developers sleep at night.

Thats it! You are ready to hack on Vikunja. Test changes, push them to the repository, and open a pull request.

Static assets

Each Vikunja release contains all static assets directly compiled into the binary. To prevent this during development, use the dev tag when developing.

See the mage docs about how to compile with static assets for a release.