Fixing issues after review

.gitignore

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ coverage/
 .pnpm-store/
 
 dist
+v8-compile-cache-0
 
 yarn-error.log
 .npmrc

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -18,26 +18,26 @@ https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo
 
 ## Development Installation
 
+If you don't have direct access to push to mermaid repositories, make a fork first. Then clone. Or clone directly from mermaid-js:
+
 ```bash
 git clone git@github.com:mermaid-js/mermaid.git
 cd mermaid
+```
+
+Install required packages:
+
+```bash
 # npx is required for first install as volta support for pnpm is not added yet.
 npx pnpm install
-pnpm -w run lint:fix
 pnpm test
 ```
 
-If you are using docker you may use:
+If you are using docker and docker-compose, you have self-documented `run` bash script, which is a convenient alias for docker-compose commands:
 
 ```bash
-git clone git@github.com:mermaid-js/mermaid.git
-cd mermaid
-docker build -f Dockerfile.dev -t mermaid .
-docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/mermaid mermaid
-
-npx pnpm install
-pnpm -w run lint:fix
-pnpm test
+./run install # npx pnpm install
+./run test # pnpm test
 ```
 
 ## Committing code

docker-compose.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+version: '3.9'
+services:
+  mermaid:
+    image: node:18.16.0-alpine3.18
+    stdin_open: true
+    tty: true
+    working_dir: /mermaid
+    volumes:
+      - ./:/mermaid

run

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+RUN="docker-compose run --rm"
+command=$1
+args=${@:2}
+
+case $command in
+
+sh)
+$RUN mermaid sh $args
+;;
+
+install)
+$RUN mermaid sh -c "npx pnpm install"
+;;
+
+test)
+$RUN mermaid sh -c "npx pnpm test"
+;;
+
+lint)
+$RUN mermaid sh -c "npx pnpm -w run lint:fix"
+;;
+
+help)
+cat <<EOF
+Run commonly used commands within docker containers
+
+$0 install         # Equvalent of pnpm install 
+$0 lint            # Equvalent of pnpm -w run lint:fix
+$0 sh              # Open sh inside docker container for development
+
+$0 help            # Show this help
+EOF
+;;
+
+*)
+$0 help
+;;
+
+esac