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Development

This doc explains how to set up a development environment so you can get started contributing to Knative Client. Also take a look at:

Prerequisites

Follow the instructions below to set up your development environment. Once you meet these requirements, you can make changes and build your own version of Knative Client!

Before submitting a PR, see also contribution guide.

Sign up for GitHub

Start by creating a GitHub account, then set up GitHub access via SSH.

Install requirements

You must install these tools:

  1. go: The language Knative Client is built in (1.12 or later)
  2. goimports
  3. gcc compiler: Used during testing. Not needed if golang is installed via the installer
  4. git: For source control
  5. kubectl: For managing development environments

Create a cluster

  1. Set up a Knative, You can also set up using limited install guides like Minikube or Minishift.

Checkout your fork

To check out this repository:

  1. Create your own fork of this repo
  2. Clone it to your machine:
git clone [email protected]:${YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME}/client.git
cd client
git remote add upstream [email protected]:knative/client.git
git remote set-url --push upstream no_push

Adding the upstream remote sets you up nicely for regularly syncing your fork.

Once you reach this point you are ready to do a full build and test as described below.

Building Knative Client

Once you've set up your development environment, let's build Knative Client.

Dependencies:

go mod is used and required for dependencies.

Building:

$ hack/build.sh

You can link that script into a directory within your search $PATH. This allows you to build kn from any working directory. There are several options to support various development flows:

  • build.sh - Compile, test, generate docs and format source code
  • build.sh -f - Compile only
  • build.sh -f -t - Compile & test
  • build.sh -c - Update dependencies, regenerate documentation and format source files
  • build.sh -w - Enter watch mode for automatic recompilation
  • build.sh -w -t - Enter watch mode for automatic recompilation & running tests

See build.sh --help for a full list of options and usage examples.

In the end, the build results in kn binary in your current directory, which can be directly executed.

Notes:

  • For building, Go 1.11.4 is required due to a go mod issue.
  • If you are building in your $GOPATH folder, you need to specify GO111MODULE for building it
# if you are building in your $GOPATH
GO111MODULE=on go build ./cmd/...

You can now try updating code for client and test out the changes by building the kn binary.