Contributing

Welcome to nushell!

Note: for a more complete guide see The nu contributor book

For speedy contributions open it in Gitpod, nu will be pre-installed with the latest build in a VSCode like editor all from your browser.

To get live support from the community see our Discord, Twitter or file an issue or feature request here on GitHub!

Developing

This is no different than other Rust projects.

git clone https://github.com/nushell/nushell
cd nushell
cargo build

Build and run Nushell:

cargo build --release && cargo run --release

Run Clippy on Nushell:

cargo clippy --all --features=stable

Run all tests:

cargo test --all --features=stable

Run all tests for a specific command

cargo test --package nu-cli --test main -- commands::<command_name_here>

Check to see if there are code formatting issues

cargo fmt --all -- --check

Format the code in the project

cargo fmt --all