# Contributing

Hey, thanks for your interest in contributing to Dokploy! We appreciate your help and taking your time to contribute.

Before you start, please first discuss the feature/bug you want to add with the owners and community via github issues.

We have a few guidelines to follow when contributing to this project:

- [Commit Convention](#commit-convention)
- [Setup](#setup)
- [Development](#development)
- [Build](#build)
- [Pull Request](#pull-request)

## Commit Convention

Before you create a Pull Request, please make sure your commit message follows the [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) specification.

### Commit Message Format

```
<type>[optional scope]: <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]
```

#### Type

Must be one of the following:

- **feat**: A new feature
- **fix**: A bug fix
- **docs**: Documentation only changes
- **style**: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
- **refactor**: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
- **perf**: A code change that improves performance
- **test**: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests
- **build**: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)
- **ci**: Changes to our CI configuration files and scripts (example scopes: Travis, Circle, BrowserStack, SauceLabs)
- **chore**: Other changes that don't modify `src` or `test` files
- **revert**: Reverts a previous commit

Example:

```
feat: add new feature
```


## Pull Request

- The `main` branch is the source of truth and should always reflect the latest stable release.
- Create a new branch for each feature or bug fix.
- Make sure to add tests for your changes.
- Make sure to update the documentation for any changes Go to the [docs.dokploy.com](https://docs.dokploy.com) website to see the changes.
- When creating a pull request, please provide a clear and concise description of the changes made.
- If you include a video or screenshot, would be awesome so we can see the changes in action.
- If your pull request fixes an open issue, please reference the issue in the pull request description.
- Once your pull request is merged, you will be automatically added as a contributor to the project.

Thank you for your contribution!

## Docs

To run the docs locally, run the following command:

```bash
pnpm run docs:dev
```

To build the docs, run the following command:

```bash
pnpm run docs:build
```

## Website

To run the website locally, run the following command:

```bash
pnpm run website:dev
```

To build the website, run the following command:

```bash
pnpm run website:build
```