CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing Guide

• The tab indentation size is 4 (whitespaces) for this project.
• We use MERN stack for the project.
• The /client folder is the main directory for Create React App.
• The /server folder is the main directory for the express server (backend).

Steps to land a successful PR

1. Fork the repository to your personal GitHub account. We call this forked repo as <YOUR_USERNAME>/tap repo.

2. Now, clone <YOUR_USERNAME>/tap and add houseofgeeks/tap as the upstream:

   git clone https://github.com/<YOUR_USERNAME>/tap.git
   cd tap
   git remote add upstream https://github.com/houseofgeeks/tap.git
   git fetch upstream

3. Checkout to local's dev branch. And create a new branch with the name of your feature (eg. docs):

   git checkout dev
   git pull upstream dev
   git push origin dev
   git checkout -b <FEATURE_NAME>

4. Close the terminal and complete the task. You may commit your progress as many times as you like during the process:

   git add --all
   git commit -m "<YOUR_MESSAGE>"

5. Commit your progress if you haven't already and push it to <YOUR_USERNAME>:<FEATURE_NAME> likewise:

   git push origin <FEATURE_NAME>

6. Open your browser and go to <YOUR_USERNAME>/tap repo on GitHub.

7. Create a PR from <YOUR_USERNAME>:<FEATURE_NAME> to houseofgeeks:dev (Very important step) This should look something like this:

   

8. Wait for the maintainer to review your code. If you need to make some changes, commit and push to <YOUR_USERNAME>:<FEATURE_NAME>.

9. Delete <YOUR_USERNAME>:<FEATURE_NAME> branch after the PR is merged or is out of scope.

   git checkout dev
   git push -d origin <FEATURE_NAME>
   git branch -d <FEATURE_NAME>

10. Repeat from step 3 for a new PR.

And you're done!

Please note we have a Code of Conduct , please follow it in all your interactions with the project.