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Project Info
First of all, thank you everyone who made pull requests for Uptime Kuma, I never thought GitHub Community can be that nice! And also because of this, I also never thought other people actually read my code and edit my code. It is not structured and commented so well, lol. Sorry about that.
The project was created with vite.js (vue3). Then I created a subdirectory called "server" for server part. Both frontend and backend share the same package.json.
The frontend code build into "dist" directory. The server (express.js) exposes the "dist" directory as root of the endpoint. This is how production is working.
Key Technical Skills
- Node.js (You should know what are promise, async/await and arrow function etc.)
- Socket.io
- SCSS
- Vue.js
- Bootstrap
- SQLite
Directories
- data (App data)
- dist (Frontend build)
- extra (Extra useful scripts)
- public (Frontend resources for dev only)
- server (Server source code)
- src (Frontend source code)
- test (unit test)
Can I create a pull request for Uptime Kuma?
Yes, you can. However, since I don't want to waste your time, be sure to create empty draft pull request, so we can discuss first if it is a large pull request or you don't know it will be merged or not.
Also, please don't rush or ask for ETA, because I have to understand the pull request, make sure it is no breaking changes and stick to my vision of this project, especially for large pull requests.
I will mark your pull request in the milestones, if I am plan to review and merge it.
✅ Accept:
- Bug/Security fix
- Translations
- Adding notification providers
⚠️ Discussion First
- Large pull requests
- New features
❌ Won't Merge
- Do not pass auto test
- Any breaking changes
- Duplicated pull request
- Buggy
- Existing logic is completely modified or deleted for no reason
- A function that is completely out of scope
Recommended Pull Request Guideline
Before deep into coding, discussion first is preferred. Creating an empty pull request for discussion would be recommended.
- Fork the project
- Clone your fork repo to local
- Create a new branch
- Create an empty commit
git commit -m "[empty commit] pull request for <YOUR TASK NAME>" --allow-empty
- Push to your fork repo
- Create a pull request: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/compare
- Write a proper description
- Click "Change to draft"
- Discussion
Project Styles
I personally do not like something need to learn so much and need to config so much before you can finally start the app.
- Easy to install for non-Docker users, no native build dependency is needed (at least for x86_64), no extra config, no extra effort to get it run
- Single container for Docker users, no very complex docker-compose file. Just map the volume and expose the port, then good to go
- Settings should be configurable in the frontend. Environment variable is not encouraged, unless it is related to startup such as
DATA_DIR
. - Easy to use
- The web UI styling should be consistent and nice.
Coding Styles
- 4 spaces indentation
- Follow
.editorconfig
- Follow ESLint
- Methods and functions should be documented with JSDoc
Name convention
- Javascript/Typescript: camelCaseType
- SQLite: snake_case (Underscore)
- CSS/SCSS: kebab-case (Dash)
Tools
- Node.js >= 14
- NPM >= 8.5
- Git
- IDE that supports ESLint and EditorConfig (I am using IntelliJ IDEA)
- A SQLite GUI tool (SQLite Expert Personal is suggested)
Install dependencies
npm ci
Dev Server
(2022-04-26 Update)
We can start the frontend dev server and the backend dev server in one command.
Port 3000
and port 3001
will be used.
npm run dev
Backend Server
It binds to 0.0.0.0:3001
by default.
It is mainly a socket.io app + express.js.
express.js is used for:
- entry point such as redirecting to a status page or the dashboard
- serving the frontend built files (index.html, .js and .css etc.)
- serving internal APIs of status page
Structure in /server/
- model/ (Object model, auto mapping to the database table name)
- modules/ (Modified 3rd-party modules)
- notification-providers/ (individual notification logic)
- routers/ (Express Routers)
- socket-handler (Socket.io Handlers)
- server.js (Server entry point and main logic)
Frontend Dev Server
It binds to 0.0.0.0:3000
by default. Frontend dev server is used for development only.
For production, it is not used. It will be compiled to dist
directory instead.
You can use Vue.js devtools Chrome extension for debugging.
Build the frontend
npm run build
Frontend Details
Uptime Kuma Frontend is a single page application (SPA). Most paths are handled by Vue Router.
The router is in src/router.js
As you can see, most data in frontend is stored in root level, even though you changed the current router to any other pages.
The data and socket logic are in src/mixins/socket.js
.
Database Migration
- Create
patch-{name}.sql
in./db/
- Add your patch filename in the
patchList
list in./server/database.js
Unit Test
It is an end-to-end testing. It is using Jest and Puppeteer.
npm run build
npm test
By default, the Chromium window will be shown up during the test. Specifying HEADLESS_TEST=1
for terminal environments.
Dependencies
Both frontend and backend share the same package.json. However, the frontend dependencies are eventually not be used in production environment, because it is usually also baked into dist files. So:
- Frontend dependencies = "devDependencies"
- Examples: vue, chart.js
- Backend dependencies = "dependencies"
- Examples: socket.io, sqlite3
- Development dependencies = "devDependencies"
- Examples: eslint, sass
Update Dependencies
Install ncu
https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates
ncu -u -t patch
npm install
Since previously updating Vite 2.5.10 to 2.6.0 broke the application completely, from now on, it should update patch release version only.
Patch release = the third digit (Semantic Versioning)
Translations
Please read: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/tree/master/src/languages
Wiki
Since there is no way to make a pull request to wiki's repo, I have set up another repo to do that.
https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma-wiki
Maintainer
Check the latest issues and pull requests: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc
Release Procedures
- Draft a release note
- Make sure the repo is cleared
npm run release-final with env vars:
VERSIONand
GITHUB_TOKEN`- Wait until the
Press any key to continue
git push
- Publish the release note as 1.X.X
- Press any key to continue
- SSH to demo site server and update to 1.X.X
Checking:
- Check all tags is fine on https://hub.docker.com/r/louislam/uptime-kuma/tags
- Try the Docker image with tag 1.X.X (Clean install / amd64 / arm64 / armv7)
- Try clean installation with Node.js
Release Beta Procedures
- Draft a release note, check "This is a pre-release"
- Make sure the repo is cleared
npm run release-beta
with env vars:VERSION
andGITHUB_TOKEN
- Wait until the
Press any key to continue
- Publish the release note as 1.X.X-beta.X
- Press any key to continue
Release Wiki
Setup Repo
git clone https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma-wiki.git
cd uptime-kuma-wiki
git remote add production https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma.wiki.git
Push to Production Wiki
git pull
git push production master