chromestatus.com is the official tool used for for tracking feature launches in Blink (the browser engine that powers Chrome and many other web browsers). This tool guides feature owners through our launch process and serves as a primary source for developer information that then ripples throughout the web developer ecosystem.
For a one-click setup that leverages devcontainers, check out the devcontainer README. Otherwise, to continue setting up locally:
git clone https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard
- Install gcloud and needed components:
- Before you begin, make sure that you have a java JRE (version 8 or greater) installed. JRE is required to use the DataStore Emulator and openapi-generator-cli.
- Google App Engine SDK for Python. Make sure to select Python 3.
gcloud init
gcloud components install cloud-datastore-emulator
gcloud components install beta
- Install other developer tools commands
- node and npm.
- Gulp:
npm install --global gulp-cli
- Python virtual environment:
sudo apt install python3.11-venv
- We recommend using an older node version, e.g. node 18
- Use
node -v
to check the default node version nvm use 18
to switch to node 18
- Use
cd chromium-dashboard
- Install JS an python dependencies:
npm run setup
- Note: Whenever we make changes to package.json or requirements.txt, you will need to run
npm run clean-setup
.
- Note: Whenever we make changes to package.json or requirements.txt, you will need to run
If you encounter any error during the installation process, the section Notes (later in this README.md) may help.
To start the main server and the notifier backend, run:
npm start
Then visit http://localhost:8080/
.
To start front end code watching (sass, js lint check, babel, minify files), run
npm run watch
To run lint & lit-analyzer:
npm run lint
To run unit tests:
npm test
This will start a local datastore emulator, run unit tests, and then shut down the emulator.
To update test_html_rendering.html, modify the test_html_rendering
method in
the corresponding test file, uncomment the line that looks like:
# TESTDATA.make_golden(template_text, 'test_html_rendering.html')
Then run the test again (and maybe one more time), and then you can revert your change of the test files.
To run the Playwright visual tests (aka end-to-end tests), the command to use is:
npm run pwtests
If there are errors, they will be displayed in the console.
If you need to update any of the screenshot images, you will see differences in
the packages/playwright/test-results
directory, and if they look correct,
then you can update all images for all tests with:
npm run pwtests-update
The updated images are also added to the screenshots directory. Images that did not need to be updated do not show up as having been changed. If you change the test file names, or the test method names, or the screenshot image file names, then new files will be generated, and you will need to manually delete the old files. You could simply delete all screenshots and update all, but that will take a fairly long time.
You can update images for just one test file by adding --filename=some_pwtest.js
to the pwtests-update
command. The some_pwtest.js
name does not need to be
a full path.
If there are error reported by the GitHub CI playwright action, you can look at
the error log, but if the problem is a difference in some of the images, you
should probably download the artifact .zip
file containing all the differences.
There is some additional information for developers in developer-documentation.md.
To test the functionality of this application locally that interacts with data from the Origin Trials API, an API key will need to be acquired. To do this, run the following command:
npm run dev-ot-key
Note: Only developers with access to the cr-status-staging GCP project will be able to successfully run this command. If you need to test this and you don't have access, open an issue.
Notes
-
If you get an error saying
No module named protobuf
orNo module named six
orNo module named enum
, try installing them locally withpip install six enum34 protobuf
. -
When installing the GAE SDK, make sure to get the version for python 3.
-
If you run the server locally, and then you are disconnected from your terminial window, the jobs might remain running which will prevent you from starting the server again. To work around this, use
npm run stop-emulator; npm stop
. Or, useps aux | grep gunicorn
and/orps aux | grep emulator
, then use the unixkill -9
command to terminate those jobs. -
If you need to test or debug anything to do with dependencies, you can get a clean start by running
npm run clean-setup
. -
Occasionally, the Google Cloud CLI will requires an update, which will cause a failure when trying to run the development server with
npm start
. An unrelated error messageFailed to connect to localhost port 15606 after 0 ms: Connection refused
will appear. Running thegcloud components update
command will update as needed and resolve this issue.
Chromestatus currently gets the list of Blink components from the file hack_components.py
.
Visit http://localhost:8080/admin/blink/populate_blink to see the list of Blink component owners.
settings.py
contains a list
of globals for debugging and running the site locally.
If you have uncommitted local changes, the appengine version name will end with -tainted
.
It is OK to test on staging with tainted versions, but everything should be committed
(and thus not tainted) before staging a version that can later be pushed to prod.
Note you need to have admin privileges on the cr-status-staging
and cr-status
cloud projects to be able to deploy the site.
Run the npm target:
npm run staging
Open the Google Developer Console for the staging site and flip to the new version by selecting from the list and clicking MIGRATE TRAFFIC. Make sure to do this for both the 'default' service as well as for the 'notifier' service.
Alternatively, run npm run staging-rc
to upload the same code to a version named rc
for "Release candidate". This is the only version that you can test using Google Sign-In at https://rc-dot-cr-status-staging.appspot.com
.
If manual testing on the staging server looks good, then repeat the same steps to deploy to prod:
npm run deploy
Open the Google Developer Console for the production site
The production site should only have versions that match versions on staging.
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