How to contribute

Getting help

Community discussion, questions, and informal bug reporting is done on the discuss.ProseMirror forum.

Report bugs on the GitHub issue tracker. Before reporting a bug, read these pointers.

The issue tracker is for bugs, not requests for help. Questions should be asked on the forum.
Include information about the browser or platform in which the problem occurred. Even if you tested several platforms, and the problem occurred in all of them, mention this fact in the bug report. Also include browser version numbers.
Mention which release of ProseMirror you're using. Preferably, try also with the current development snapshot, to ensure the problem has not already been fixed.
Mention very precisely what went wrong. "X is broken" is not a good bug report. What did you expect to happen? What happened instead? Describe the exact steps a maintainer has to take to make the problem occur. We can not fix something that we can not observe.
A great way to make it easy to reproduce your problem, if it can not be trivially reproduced on the website demos, is to submit a script or HTML file that triggers the issue.

Make sure you have a GitHub Account
Fork the repository (how to fork a repo)
Make your changes, and commit them
Follow the code style of the rest of the project (see below). Run npm run lint to verify that the linter is happy (you'll need to run npm install first).
If your changes are easy to test or likely to regress, add tests in the test/ directory. Either put them in an existing test-*.js file, if they fit there, or add a new file.
Make sure all tests pass. Run npm run test verify tests pass (you will need Node.js v6+). Also run browser tests by starting the demo (npm run demo) and visiting http://localhost:8080/test.html in a browser.
Submit a pull request (how to create a pull request). Don't put more than one feature/fix in a single pull request.

By contributing code to ProseMirror you

Agree to license the contributed code under the project's MIT license.
Confirm that you have the right to contribute and license the code in question. (Either you hold all rights on the code, or the rights holder has explicitly granted the right to use it like this, through a compatible open source license or through a direct agreement with you.)

ES6 syntax, targeting an ES5 runtime (i.e. don't use library elements added by ES6, don't use ES7/ES.next syntax).
2 spaces per indentation level, no tabs.
No semicolons except when necessary.
Follow the surrounding code when it comes to spacing, brace placement, etc.
Brace-less single-statement bodies are encouraged (whenever they don't impact readability).
getdocs-style doc comments above items that are part of the public API.
When documenting non-public items, you can put the type after a single colon, so that getdocs doesn't pick it up and add it to the API reference.
The linter (npm run lint) complains about unused variables and functions. Prefix their names with an underscore to muffle it.
ProseMirror does not follow JSHint or JSLint prescribed style. Patches that try to 'fix' code to pass one of these linters will not be accepted.