Files
patch-db/CONTRIBUTING.md
Matt Hill 86b0768bbb audit fixes, repo restructure, and documentation
Soundness and performance audit (17 fixes):
- See AUDIT.md for full details and @claude comments in code

Repo restructure:
- Inline json-ptr and json-patch submodules as regular directories
- Remove cbor submodule, replace serde_cbor with ciborium
- Rename patch-db/ -> core/, patch-db-macro/ -> macro/,
  patch-db-macro-internals/ -> macro-internals/, patch-db-util/ -> util/
- Purge upstream CI/CD, bench, and release cruft from json-patch
- Remove .gitmodules

Test fixes:
- Fix proptest doesnt_crash (unique file paths, proper close/cleanup)
- Add PatchDb::close() for clean teardown

Documentation:
- Add README.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CLAUDE.md, AUDIT.md
- Add TSDocs to TypeScript client exports

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-23 19:06:42 -07:00

2.2 KiB

Contributing

Prerequisites

  • Rust — stable toolchain (edition 2018+)
  • Node.js — v16+ with npm

Building

Rust

cargo build                        # Build all crates
cargo build --features debug       # Build with tracing support

TypeScript client

cd client
npm install
npm run build    # Compiles to dist/
npm run check    # Type-check without emitting

Testing

Rust

cargo test                 # Run all tests
cargo test -p patch-db     # Core crate only
cargo test -p json-ptr     # JSON Pointer crate only
cargo test -p json-patch   # JSON Patch crate only

The core crate uses proptest for property-based testing.

TypeScript

The client uses pre-commit hooks (husky) for linting:

cd client
npx prettier --check "**/*.{js,ts,html,md,less,json}"
npx tslint --project .

CLI utility

patch-db-util provides commands for inspecting and restoring database files:

# Dump database state as JSON
cargo run -p patch-db-util -- dump path/to/my.db

# Restore database from JSON on stdin
echo '{"count": 42}' | cargo run -p patch-db-util -- from-dump path/to/my.db

Code style

Rust

  • Follow standard rustfmt conventions
  • Use thiserror for error types
  • Async functions use tokio

TypeScript

  • Prettier for formatting (runs via pre-commit hook)
  • TSLint for linting (runs via pre-commit hook)
  • RxJS conventions: suffix observables with $

Making changes

  1. Check ARCHITECTURE.md to understand which crate(s) your change touches
  2. Follow existing patterns — look at neighboring code before inventing new abstractions
  3. Cross-layer changes (Rust types that affect the TS client) require updating both sides to keep the wire format compatible:
    • Revision and Dump types must match between core/src/patch.rs and client/lib/types.ts
    • Patch operations (add/remove/replace) must match between json-patch/ and client/lib/json-patch-lib.ts
  4. Run tests before submitting

Commit conventions

  • Use imperative mood in commit messages ("add feature", not "added feature")
  • Keep commits focused — one logical change per commit