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Contributing to Crates.io

Finding an issue to work on

We try to keep a variety of issues tagged with E-mentor. These issues should contain, somewhere within the body or the comments, clear instructions on what needs to be done and where the changes will need to be made. If any E-mentor issues do not contain this information or the information isn't clear, we consider this a bug, please comment and ask for clarification! Please don't hesitate to ask any questions on these issues, we're paying special attention to them and someone will get back to you with help as soon as possible.

We'd also love contributions for issues not tagged E-mentor, they just might not be as well specified. You may want to browse through the labels that start with A-, which stands for "area", to find issues that match with your interests.

If you'd like to work on something that isn't in a current issue, especially if it would be a big change, please open a new issue for discussion!

Submitting a Pull Request

As an initiative to improve the documentation of the crates.io codebase, we would like to see all new types and functions, public and private, to have documentation comments on them. If you change an existing type or function, and it doesn't have a documentation comment on it, it'd be great if you could add one to it too.

When you submit a pull request, it will be automatically tested on TravisCI. In addition to running both the frontend and the backend tests described below, Travis runs jslint, clippy, and rustfmt on each PR.

If you don't want to run these tools locally, please watch the Travis results and submit additional commits to your pull request to fix any issues they find!

If you do want to run these tools locally in order to fix issues before submitting, that would be great too! Please consult each tool's installation instructions and the .travis.yml file in this repository for the latest installation and running instructions. The logs for recent builds in Travis may also be helpful to see which versions of these tools we're currently using.

We will try to review your pull requests as soon as possible!

Reviewing Pull Requests

Another way to help out and to get to know the codebase is to review other people's pull requests! Take a look at docs/PR-REVIEW.md for guidelines on how to do that.

Setting up a development environment

First, you'll need git to clone the repo. GitHub has help pages about setting up git, and once you've done that, you should be able to clone the repo and change into the repo's directory from your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io.git
cd crates.io/

Working on the Frontend

If the changes you'd like to make only involve:

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

and don't need:

  • any changes to the JSON returned by the requests to the backend
  • a user to be logged in

then you only need to set up the frontend. Once you've set up a local frontend, you can run your frontend against the production API.

If you need to set up the backend, you'll probably want to set up the frontend as well.

Frontend requirements

In order to run the frontend on Windows and macOS, you will need to have installed:

  • node >= 6.10.0 (see .travis.yml for what we currently use)
  • npm >= 4.0.0

Follow the links for each of these tools for their recommended installation instructions. If you already have these tools, or you have a different preferred method of installing packages like these, that should work fine.

If you are on Linux, use nvm to ensure that the use of npm does not require the use of sudo.

The front end should run fine after these steps. Please file an issue if you run into any trouble.

Building and serving the frontend

To install the npm packages that crates.io uses, run:

npm install

You'll need to run these commands any time the libraries or versions of these libraries that crates.io uses change. Usually you'll know they've changed because you'll run the next step and it will fail saying it can't find some libraries.

To build and serve the frontend assets, use the command npm run start. There are variations on this command that change which backend your frontend tries to talk to:

Command Backend Use case
npm run start:live https://crates.io Testing UI changes with the full live site's data
npm run start:staging https://staging-crates-io.herokuapp.com Testing UI changes with a smaller set of realistic data
npm run start Static fixture test data in mirage/fixtures Setting up particular situations, see note
npm run start:local Backend server running locally See the Working on the backend section for setup
npm run start -- --proxy https://crates.io Whatever is specified in --proxy arg If your use case is not covered here

Note: If you want to set up a particular situation, you can edit the fixture data used for tests in mirage/fixtures. The fixture data does not currently contain JSON needed to support every page, so some pages might not load correctly.

Running the frontend tests

You can run the frontend tests with:

npm test

Working on the Backend

Backend Requirements

In order to run the backend, you will need to have installed:

Rust
  • rustup is the installation method we'd recommend for all platforms.
Postgres

Postgres can be a little finicky to install and get set up. These are the methods we'd recommend for each operating system:

  • Windows: use the Windows installers recommended by Postgres

  • macOS: Either Postgres.app or through Homebrew by running brew install postgresql and following the post-installation instructions

  • Linux: Postgres is generally available in the distribution repositories as postgresql or postgresql-server. You will also need postgresql-devel, which might be called postgresql-contrib, and possibly libpq-dev. Here are some examples of installation commands that have been tested for the following distributions:

    • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev pkg-config
    • Fedora: sudo dnf install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib postgresql-devel pkgconfig

    If you're missing a package, when you try to cargo install or cargo build later, you'll get an error that looks like this:

    ```
error: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1
[lots of output]
= note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l[something]
```

    That [something] is what you're missing; you'll need to do some research to figure out what package will get you the missing library.

Then, once Postgres is installed, ensure that you can run psql (and then exit by typing \q) without any errors to connect to your running Postgres server.

Depending on your system, its permissions, and how Postgres was installed, you may need to use the postgres user for some operations (by using sudo su - postgres). Generally, the problem is that by default the postgres server is only set up to allow connections by the postrges user. You'll know if you're in this situation because if you try to run psql as yourself, you'll get this error:

psql: FATAL:  role "yourusername" does not exist

One way of fixing this is to first give yourself superuser permissions in the database by running this and replacing [yourusername] with your username:

sudo -u postgres createuser --superuser [yourusername]

Next, if you try to run psql and get this error:

psql: FATAL:  database "yourusername" does not exist

Fix that by creating a template database for yourself:

createdb [yourusername]

Try running psql again as yourself. If you're still getting errors, here are some pages with troubleshooting information for some of the Linux distributions:

For other platforms, try searching for the error message and following suggestions from Stack Overflow. Open an issue on this repo if you get stuck, we'll help fix the problem and and will add the solution to these instructions!

OpenSSL
  • Windows: Win32 OpenSSL Installation Project provides installers for the latest versions. Scroll down to “Download Win32 OpenSSL”, pick the 64-bit non-Light version of OpenSSL, and install it.
  • macOS: you can also install with homebrew by using brew install openssl
  • Linux: you should be able to use the distribution repositories. It will be called openssl, openssl-devel, or libssl-dev. OpenSSL needs pkg-config as well. According to rust-openssl,
    • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev pkg-config
    • Fedora: sudo dnf install openssl-devel pkgconfig
    • Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S openssl pkg-config

If you have problems with OpenSSL, see rust-openssl's README for some suggestions.

diesel_cli

On all platforms, install through cargo by running:

cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features postgres

This will install a binary named diesel, so you should be able to run diesel --version to confirm successful installation.

If you're on Linux and this fails with an error that looks like error: linking with cc failed: exit code: 1, you're probably missing some Postgres related libraries. See the Postgres section above on how to fix this.

Building and serving the backend

Environment variables

Copy the .env.sample file to .env. Modify the settings as appropriate; minimally you'll need to specify or modify the value of the DATABASE_URL var. Try using postgres://postgres@localhost/cargo_registry first.

If that doesn't work, change this by filling in this template with the appropriate values where there are []s:

postgres://[postgresuser]:[password]@[localhost]:[5432]/[database_name]
  • Replace [postgresuser] with the user that is allowed to log in to your Postgres server.
  • If that user needs a password, put it after the : instead of [password]. Remove both : and [password] if the user doesn't need a password.
  • Replace [localhost] with the host and [5432] with the port where your Postgres server is running.
  • Replace [database_name] with the name of the database you'd like to use. We're going to create a database named cargo_registry in the next section; change this if you'd like to name it something else.
Creating the database

You can name your development database anything as long as it matches the database name in the DATABASE_URL value. This example assumes a database named cargo_registry.

Create a new database by running:

createdb cargo_registry

Then run the migrations:

diesel migration run
Setting up the git index

Set up the git repo for the crate index by running:

./script/init-local-index.sh
Starting the server and the frontend

Build and start the server by running this command (you'll need to stop this with CTRL-C and rerun this command every time you change the backend code):

cargo run --bin server

Then start a frontend that uses this backend by running this command in another terminal session (the frontend picks up frontend changes using live reload without a restart needed, and you can leave the frontend running while you restart the server):

npm run start:local

And then you should be able to visit http://localhost:4200!

Using Mailgun to Send Emails

We currently have email functionality enabled for confirming a user's email address. In development, the sending of emails is simulated by a file representing the email being created in your local /tmp/ directory. If you want to test sending real emails, you will have to either set the Mailgun environment variables in .env manually or run your app instance on Heroku and add the Mailgun app.

To set the environment variables manually, create an account and configure Mailgun. [These quick start instructions] (http://mailgun-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html) might be helpful. Once you get the environment variables for the app, you will have to add them to the bottom of the .env file. You will need to fill in the MAILGUN_SMTP_LOGIN, MAILGUN_SMTP_PASSWORD, and MAILGUN_SMTP_SERVER fields.

If using Heroku, you should be able to add the app to your instance on your dashboard. When your code is pushed and run on Heroku, the environment variables should be detected and you should not have to set anything manually.

In either case, you should be able to check in your Mailgun account to see if emails are being detected and sent. Relevant information should be under the 'logs' tab on your Mailgun dashboard. To access, if the variables were set up manually, log in to your account. If the variables were set through Heroku, you should be able to click on the Mailgun icon in your Heroku dashboard, which should take you to your Mailgun dashboard.

Running the backend tests

In your .env file, set TEST_DATABASE_URL to a value that's the same as DATABASE_URL except with a different database name at the end, since everything in the test database will be deleted every time you run tests. Try using postgres://postgres@localhost/cargo_registry_test.

Create the test database by running:

createdb cargo_registry_test

The test harness will ensure that migrations are run.

Run the backend API server tests with this command:

cargo test

Using your local crates.io with cargo

Once you have a local instance of crates.io running at http://localhost:4200 by following the instructions in the "Working on the Backend" section, you can go to another Rust project and tell cargo to use your local crates.io instead of production.

Publishing a crate to your local crates.io

In order to publish a crate, you need an API token. In order to get an API token, you need to be able to log in with GitHub OAuth. In order to be able to log in with GitHub, you need to create an application with GitHub and specify the GH_CLIENT_ID and GH_CLIENT_SECRET variables in your .env.

To create an application with GitHub, go to Settings -> Developer Settings -> OAuth Applications and click on the "Register a new application" button. Fill in the form as follows:

  • Application name: name your application whatever you'd like.
  • Homepage URL: http://localhost:4200/
  • Authorization callback URL: http://localhost:4200/authorize/github

Create the application, then take the Client ID ad Client Secret values and use them as the values of the GH_CLIENT_ID and GH_CLIENT_SECRET in your .env.

Then restart your backend, and you should be able to log in to your local crates.io with your GitHub account.

Go to http://localhost:4200/me to get your API token and run the cargo login command as directed.

Now you should be able to go to the directory of a crate that has no dependencies. There's currently restrictions around publishing crates that have dependencies installed from other registries than the one you're publishing to, so if you have a crate you've been working on that has dependencies from the live crates.io, you won't be able to publish that crate locally.

In your crate directory, run:

cargo publish --index file:///path/to/your/crates.io/checkout/tmp/index-co

If you're using an older version of cargo you should use --host instead of --index.

where file:///path/to/your/crates.io/checkout is the directory that you have crates.io's code in, and tmp/index-co is the directory with the git index that ./script/init-local-index.sh set up.

Note that when you're running crates.io in development mode without the S3 variables set (which is what we've done in these setup steps), the crate files will be stored in local_uploads/crates and served from there when a crate is downloaded. If you try to install a crate from your local crates.io and cargo can't find the crate files, it is probably because this directory does not exist.

Downloading a crate from your local crates.io

In another crate, you can use the crate you've published as a dependency by telling cargo to replace crates.io with your local crates.io as a source.

In this other crate's directory, create a .cargo/config file with this content:

[source]

[source.mirror]
registry = "file:///path/to/your/crates.io/checkout/tmp/index-co"

[source.crates-io]
replace-with = "mirror"

Then add the crate you published to your local crates.io as a dependency in this crate's Cargo.toml, and cargo build should display output like this:

    Updating registry `file:///path/to/your/crates.io/checkout/tmp/index-co`
 Downloading yourcrate v0.1.0 (registry file:///path/to/your/crates.io/checkout/tmp/index-co)
   Compiling yourcrate v0.1.0
   Compiling thiscrate v0.1.0 (file:///path/to/thiscrate)
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.56 secs

Running crates.io with Docker

There are Dockerfiles to build both the backend and the frontend, (backend.Dockerfile and frontend.Dockerfile) respectively, but it is most useful to just use docker-compose to bring up everything that's needed all in one go:

docker-compose up -d

The Compose file is filled out with a sane set of defaults that should Just Work™ out of the box without any modification. Individual settings can be overridden by creating a docker-compose.override.yml with the updated config. For example, in order to specify a set of Github OAuth Client credentials, a docker-compose.override.yml file might look like this:

version: "3"
services:
  backend:
    environment:
      GH_CLIENT_ID: blahblah_ID
      GH_CLIENT_SECRET: blahblah_secret

Accessing services

By default, the services will be exposed on their normal ports:

  • 5432 for Postgres
  • 8888 for the crates.io backend
  • 4200 for the crates.io frontend

These can be changed with the docker-compose.override.yml file.

Publishing crates

Unlike a local setup, the Git index is not stored in the ./tmp folder, so in order to publish to the Dockerized crates.io, run

cargo publish --index http://localhost:4200/git/index

Changing code

The app/ directory is mounted directly into the frontend Docker container, which means that the Ember live-reload server will still just work. If anything outside of app/ is changed, the base Docker image will have to be rebuilt:

# Rebuild frontend Docker image
docker-compose build frontend

# Restart running frontend container (if it's already running)
docker-compose stop frontend
docker-compose rm frontend
docker-compose up -d

Similarly, the src/ directory is mounted into the backend Docker container, so in order to recompile the backend, run:

docker-compose restart backend

If anything outside of src/ is changed, the base Docker image will have to be rebuilt:

# Rebuild backend Docker image
docker-compose build backend

# Restart running backend container (if it's already running)
docker-compose stop backend
docker-compose rm backend
docker-compose up -d

Volumes

A number of names volumes are created, as can be seen in the volumes section of the docker-compose.yml file.
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