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Building the projects

If you're going to submit a pull request for TSDoc, you will need to use the Rush monorepo manager tool.

What's this Rush thing? Rush is a monorepo build orchestrator that handles policy validation, change log management, installing (using PNPM), linking, building, and publishing. To learn more about Rush, please visit: https://rushjs.io

Install the tool like this:

$ npm install -g @microsoft/rush

NOTE: If this command fails because your user account does not have permissions to access NPM's global folder, you may need to fix your NPM configuration.

Rush will symlink the api-demo project to use your local build of the @microsoft/tsdoc library, for easy testing/validation.

To build the projects:

$ cd ./tsdoc
$ rush install
$ rush build

To run all the unit tests from the command-line​

The unit tests are implemented using Jest, but invoked via the Heft build system. (See the linked pages for more comprehensive documentation.)

The unit tests are invoked automatically when you build a project:

$ cd ./tsdoc
$ npm run build

Running the unit tests interactively​

You can also invoke Heft/Jest interactively (the jest --watch scenario), so that affected tests will be re-run whenever a source file is saved. Launch the watch mode like this:

$ cd ./tsdoc
$ npm run watch

Debugging the unit tests​

The ./tsdoc/.vscode/launch.json file includes a Visual Studio Code configuration that makes debugging easier. To debug a unit test:

  1. Launch VS Code in the tsdoc subfolder (not the repository root):

    $ cd ./tsdoc
    $ code .

  2. In the editor window, open a test file. For example, src/tests/ParsingBasicTests.test.ts.

  3. In the VS Code window, click View --> Debug (CTRL+SHIFT+D)

  4. From the DEBUG combo box, choose the "Debug Jest tests" debug configuration, and click the play button. This will run all tests in the debugger.