Contributing
Questions
If you have questions about implementation details, help or support, then please use our dedicated community forum at GitHub Discussions PLEASE NOTE: If you choose to instead open an issue for your question, your issue will be immediately closed and redirected to the forum.
Reporting Issues
If you have found what you think is a bug, please file an issue. PLEASE NOTE: Issues that are identified as implementation questions or non-issues will be immediately closed and redirected to GitHub Discussions
Suggesting new features
If you are here to suggest a feature, first create an issue if it does not already exist. From there, we will discuss use-cases for the feature and then finally discuss how it could be implemented.
Development
TanStack/query uses symlink-based configuration files. For smooth development in a local environment, we recommend developing in an environment that supports symlinks(ex: Linux, macOS, Windows Subsystem for Linux / WSL).
If you have been assigned to fix an issue or develop a new feature, please follow these steps to get started:
Fork this repository.
Install dependencies
pnpm installBuild all packages.
pnpm build:allRun development server.
pnpm run watchImplement your changes and tests to files in the
src/directory and corresponding test files.Document your changes in the appropriate doc page.
Git stage your required changes and commit (see below commit guidelines).
Submit PR for review.
Editing the docs locally and previewing the changes
The documentations for all the TanStack projects are hosted on tanstack.com, which is a TanStack Start application (https://github.com/TanStack/tanstack.com). You need to run this app locally to preview your changes in the TanStack/query docs.
The website fetches the doc pages from GitHub in production, and searches for them at
../query/docsin development. Your local clone ofTanStack/queryneeds to be in the same directory as the local clone ofTanStack/tanstack.com.
You can follow these steps to set up the docs for local development:
- Make a new directory called
tanstack.
mkdir tanstack
- Enter that directory and clone the
TanStack/queryandTanStack/tanstack.comrepos.
cd tanstack
git clone git@github.com:TanStack/query.git
# We probably don't need all the branches and commit history
# from the `tanstack.com` repo, so let's just create a shallow
# clone of the latest version of the `main` branch.
# Read more about shallow clones here:
# https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-clone-and-shallow-clone/#user-content-shallow-clones
git clone git@github.com:TanStack/tanstack.com.git --depth=1 --single-branch --branch=main
Your
tanstackdirectory should look like this:tanstack/ | +-- query/ (<-- this directory cannot be called anything else!) | +-- tanstack.com/
- Enter the
tanstack/tanstack.comdirectory, install the dependencies and run the app in dev mode:
cd tanstack.com
pnpm i
# The app will run on https://localhost:3000 by default
pnpm dev
- Now you can visit http://localhost:3000/query/latest/docs/framework/react/overview in the browser and see the changes you make in
tanstack/query/docsthere.
You will need to update the
docs/config.jsonfile (inTanStack/query) if you add a new documentation page!
You can see the whole process in the screen capture below:
https://github.com/fulopkovacs/form/assets/43729152/9d35a3c3-8153-4e74-9cb2-af275f7a269b
Running examples
Make sure you've installed the dependencies in the repo's root directory.
pnpm installIf you want to run the example against your local changes, run below in the repo's root directory. Otherwise, it will be run against the latest TanStack Query release.
pnpm run watchRun below in the selected examples' directory.
pnpm run dev
Note on standalone execution
If you want to run an example without installing dependencies for the whole repo, just follow instructions from the example's README.md file. It will be then run against the latest TanStack Query release.
Online one-click setup
You can use Gitpod (An Online Open Source VS Code like IDE which is free for Open Source) for developing online. With a single click it will start a workspace and automatically:
clone the
TanStack/queryrepo.install all the dependencies in
/and/docs.run below in the root(
/) to Auto-build files.npm startrun below in
/docs.npm run dev
Commit message conventions
TanStack/query is using Angular Commit Message Conventions.
We have very precise rules over how our git commit messages can be formatted. This leads to more readable messages that are easy to follow when looking through the project history.
Commit Message Format
Each commit message consists of a header, a body and a footer. The header has a special format that includes a type, a scope and a subject:
<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>
The header is mandatory and the scope of the header is optional.
Any line of the commit message cannot be longer than 100 characters! This allows the message to be easier to read on GitHub as well as in various git tools.
Type
Must be one of the following:
- feat: A new feature
- fix: A bug fix
- docs: Documentation only changes
- style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semicolons, etc.)
- refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
- perf: A code change that improves performance
- test: Adding missing or correcting existing tests
- chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
Scope
The scope could be anything specifying place of the commit change. For example query-core, react-query etc...
You can use * when the change affects more than a single scope.
Subject
The subject contains succinct description of the change:
- use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
- don't capitalize first letter
- no dot (.) at the end
Body
Just as in the subject, use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes". The body should include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous behavior.
Footer
The footer should contain any information about Breaking Changes and is also the place to reference GitHub issues that this commit closes.
Breaking Changes should start with the word BREAKING CHANGE: with a space or two newlines. The rest of the commit message is then used for this.
Example
Here is an example of the release type that will be done based on a commit messages:
| Commit message | Release type |
|---|---|
| fix(pencil): stop graphite breaking when too much pressure applied | Patch Release |
feat(pencil): add graphiteWidth option |
|
perf(pencil): remove graphiteWidth optionBREAKING CHANGE: The graphiteWidth option has been removed.The default graphite width of 10mm is always used for performance reasons. |
Revert
If the commit reverts a previous commit, it should begin with revert:, followed by the header of the reverted commit. In the body it should say: This reverts commit <hash>., where the hash is the SHA of the commit being reverted.
Pull requests
Maintainers merge pull requests by squashing all commits and editing the commit message if necessary using the GitHub user interface.
Use an appropriate commit type. Be especially careful with breaking changes.
Releases
For each new commit added to main with git push or by merging a pull request or merging from another branch, a GitHub action is triggered and runs the semantic-release command to make a release if there are codebase changes since the last release that affect the package functionalities.
🧪 Test
TanStack Query uses Nx as its monorepo tool.
To run tests in a local environment, you should use nx commands from the root directory.
✅ Run all tests
To run tests for all packages, run:
npm run test
✅ Run tests for a specific package
To run tests for a specific package, use the following command:
npx nx run @tanstack/{package-name}:test:lib
For example:
npx nx run @tanstack/react-query:test:lib
⚠️ Caution
Do not run pnpm run test:lib inside individual package folders.
This can cause test failures due to dependencies between packages.
Always run tests from the root folder using nx commands.