code-server/doc/CONTRIBUTING.md

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# Contributing
- [Detailed CI and build process docs](../ci)
- [Our VS Code Web docs](../src/node/app)
## Requirements
Please refer to [VS Code's prerequisites](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#prerequisites).
Differences:
- We are not constrained by node version
- We use [fnpm](https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm) to build .deb and .rpm packages
## Development Workflow
```shell
yarn
yarn vscode
yarn watch # Visit http://localhost:8080 once completed.
```
To develop inside of an isolated docker container:
```shell
./ci/dev/container/exec.sh
root@12345:/code-server# yarn
root@12345:/code-server# yarn vscode
root@12345:/code-server# yarn watch
```
Any changes made to the source will be live reloaded.
If changes are made to the patch and you've built previously you must manually
reset VS Code then run `yarn vscode:patch`.
Some docs are available at [../src/node/app](../src/node/app) on how code-server
works internally.
## Build
```shell
yarn
yarn vscode
yarn build
yarn build:vscode
yarn release
cd release
yarn --production
node . # Run the built JavaScript with Node.
```
Now you can make it static and build packages with:
```
yarn release:static
yarn test:static-release
yarn package
```
The static release will be in `./release-static` and .deb, .rpm and self-contained release in `./release-packages`.