Contributing

Thanks for being willing to contribute!

Working on your first Pull Request? You can learn how from this free series How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub

Project setup

Fork and clone the repo
Run npm run setup -s to install dependencies and run validation
Create a branch for your PR with git checkout -b pr/your-branch-name

Tip: Keep your main branch pointing at the original repository and make pull requests from branches on your fork. To do this, run:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/testing-library/react-testing-library.git
git fetch upstream
git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream/main main
This will add the original repository as a "remote" called "upstream," Then fetch the git information from that remote, then set your local main branch to use the upstream main branch whenever you run git pull. Then you can make all of your pull request branches based on this main branch. Whenever you want to update your version of main, do a regular git pull.

Committing and Pushing changes

Please make sure to run the tests before you commit your changes. You can run npm run test:update which will update any snapshots that need updating. Make sure to include those changes (if they exist) in your commit.

Update Typings

If your PR introduced some changes in the API, you are more than welcome to modify the TypeScript type definition to reflect those changes. Just modify the /types/index.d.ts file accordingly. If you have never seen TypeScript definitions before, you can read more about it in its documentation pages. Though this library itself is not written in TypeScript we use dtslint to lint our typings.

Help needed

Please checkout the the open issues

Also, please watch the repo and respond to questions/bug reports/feature requests! Thanks!