Development & Testing code changes

mikechristopher

Hello,
Looking for a bit of advice please as a bit new to how this all works. If i want to do some code changes and have forked the core repo whats the easiest way to test in local dev environment that the changes I have made work the way I want it to? Do I have to compile it all every time? Never done a compile so not sure where to start.

Am using a windows machine and AMPPS for a local webserver. I currently have the dev source in one location on my PC to work with and have downloaded and installed what I believe to be the compiled version onto the webserver.

luceos

You can clone your fork in flarum/core the code will then see you have that version installed. Just make sure you remove flarum/vendor/flarum/core and update composer autoloading using composer dumpautoload in the flarum/ folder. You can also replace the vendor/flarum/core folder for your fork if that is easier for you.

Next step is to generate all asset files, you can take a look at the build script to see what command it runs.

mikechristopher

Hi Luceos,
Thank you it was the vendor/flarum/core I was overwriting to test it but the changes were not showing up so I know now I have to generate the assets which build script is it that I need to be looking at - is it the build.sh within the stubs directory? So i need to download composer - will be a new one for me but shall give it a shot.

Thinking I may be better off building a linux VM to use instead of my day to day PC. As was looking at your other post - http://discuss.flarum.org/d/749-more-information-on-setting-up-a-dev-environment/2

luceos

mikechristopher i recommend a separate vm, otherwise your local machine will be filled with npm dependancies 🙂

mikechristopher

I will go with that then and try your dev environment instructions 🙂

Thanks for you help

luceos

mikechristopher Those aren't actually instructions, it's the issues I ran into while trying to set up a dev environment.