Contributing

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Python 3 and Node.js installed on your machine.

If you do not have Python installed on your machine you can follow this guide

If you do not have Node.js installed on your machine you can follow

Installation

This guide is for Mac OSX, Linux or Windows.

1. Get the source code from the GitHub repository

2. Create a virtual environment using pipenv to install the dependencies (recommended):

3. Install Node.js dependencies

Testing

We are using to test the JavaScript functions.

If you want to find out more please read their official documentation or look at how we are testing the using the test file erf.test.js.

Finally, run npm run test. You should write tests for all the new functions you add and ensure that you get positive results from the tests. Also run tests before deploying a new version of the CBE Thermal Comfort Tool.

Versioning

When you release a new version of the tool you should first use bumpversion to update the version of the tool. You can use the following command:

Secondly, you should describe the changes in docs/changelog/changelog.md

Deploying

We are deploying the tool using Google Cloud Run. The project is automatically deployed when you push to master the commit message that includes the word bump version. Check the GitHub action in the folder ./.github/workflows/deploy.yml for more information about how we build and deploy the application.

Alternatively, you can deploy a new version of the tool to Google Cloud Run using the following command. Please note that you must set a valid account before running the command and add your email in the code below.