How to contribute

[Ppjet6]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am very foreign to the latest javascript developments, and having notes on how to start making changes to the codebase would be very helpful.

I've gone as far as running npm install, npm run telling me to run vite which I found in node_modules, this provides a local web server, then I copied local.js from public that I put in the root folder (trying things..), which worked for a time but now my changes in this file aren't picked up anymore.

I have a local prosody installed, that works fine.

Describe the solution you'd like
Notes either in the README or in some other file alongside indicating how to get a local setup working and how to make changes.

[nioc]

Oups, I was sure I wrote a CONTRIBUTING.md like this one.

I will add it and also a dev dockerfile. In the meantime, here are the key points:

0. Install prerequisite:

• Node.js
• npm npm install npm@latest -g
• git clone to a folder of your choice (/var/www/xmpp-web for example)

1. Access the frontend folder in a shell cd /var/www/xmpp-web
2. Build the project npm install and wait for the downloads
3. Start the vite server npm run dev
4. Edit local.js according to your XMPP server configuration
5. Edit the code (I suggest using VS Code)
6. Before commit, run the linter npm run lint

[nioc]

@Ppjet6 I updated my contributing guide and added on this repo. Tell me if it is clear enough and easy to setup 😉