Thank you for wanting to contribute to the Profanity project. With your contributions we can ensure Profanity remains a leading solution for filtering profanity within JavaScript projects.
- Issues:
- Always work off of an Issue. Please do not submit a Pull Request that is not associated with an Issue (create the Issue if necessary).
- If you are beginning work on an Issue, please leave a comment on the issue letting us know, and we'll assign the Issue to you. This way somebody else won't start working on the same Issue.
- Branches:
- We support two versions of Profanity:
1.x.xandmain. Themainbranch has features that require Node 12+, but we maintain the1.x.xbranch for projects that require older versions of Node. - If the Issue you are working on has a
1.x.xlabel on it, you must branch off of the1.x.xbranch. Otherwise, please branch off ofmain.
- We support two versions of Profanity:
- Pull Request (PR):
- Make sure you run the following scripts in local, and that all of them pass, before submitting a PR:
npm run lint:fixnpm run formatnpm test
- Make sure your PR is targeting the correct branch (see Step 2.ii)
- At the top of your PR description write: "Fixes #n". Where n is the number of the Issue your PR is fixing (e.g.,
Fixes #33). This will tell GitHub to associate your PR with the Issue.
- Make sure you run the following scripts in local, and that all of them pass, before submitting a PR:
mainbranch: Node 20+1.x.xbranch: Node 10.23.0
- Clone the repo
- Change directories:
cd Profanity - Install dependencies:
npm i
Start app in watch mode: npm run local
When file changes are detected, the app will automatically rebuild/restart
- Check lint rules:
npm run lint - Fix lint errors:
npm run lint:fix - Fix formatting errors:
npm run format
The following section includes optional dev tools that enhance the Profanity development experience, but are not necessary.
The Profanity project includes an .nvmrc file, so you can run nvm use to switch to the required version of Node.
- Install nvm: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
- Install the Node.js version required by this app:
nvm install- NVM will determine the required Node version using the .nvmrc file
- NVM will install the required Node version if it isn't installed
- NVM will set your current Node version to the one required
We utilize a self-hosted instance of the Open Source LibreTranslate lib to translate the core English list of profane words.
- Open a terminal.
- Generate translations:
npm run translate.
By default, the LibreTranslate service is configured to include all available target languages from argos-translate. This configuration affects:
- Startup Time: Initial service startup. Depending on your system, this can take ~5 minutes.
- Translation Time: Translating across all languages increases processing time.
- Library Size: The final size of the Profanity library.
To optimize performance, we limit the target languages by configuring the LT_LOAD_ONLY environment variable:
- Open the docker-compose.yml file.
- Add a comma-separated list of the supported language codes you wish to include. Ensure English (
en) is included, as it serves as the source language.
Example Configuration:
environment:
LT_LOAD_ONLY: "en,es,fr,de"Note:
- To add a new language, remove existing language codes from
LT_LOAD_ONLY- To update existing languages after changes to the core English list, include their language codes in
LT_LOAD_ONLY
Deployments to Prod consist of building and publishing the Profanity lib to NPM, and are automated through our Continuous Deployment workflow.
- Checkout
main. - Increment the version in package.json, using semantic versioning (e.g.,
1.1.0). - Perform benchmarking:
- Run the script:
npm run benchmark. - Record the results in benchmark/results.md, for the new version.
- Run the script:
- Rebuild package-lock, to pick up the new version number:
npm i --package-lock-only. - Create local NPM package:
npm pack- Examine generated tar file to ensure it looks healthy
- Push changes:
git add . git commit -m "Bump version to 1.1.0" git push
- Navigate to the CI workflow.
- Ensure the build checks for this push succeed.
- Navigate to Profanity's releases.
- Click "Draft a new release":
- Choose a tag: enter version (e.g.,
v1.1.0) and click "Create new tag" - Target:
main - Previous tag:
auto - Release title: (e.g.,
1.1.0) - Description: click the "Generate release notes"
- Set as the latest release
- Choose a tag: enter version (e.g.,
- Click "Publish release".
This will trigger the CDP workflow, which will build and deploy the package to NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@2toad/profanity