Contributing to GraphQL PHP

Workflow

If your contribution requires significant or breaking changes, or if you plan to propose a major new feature, we recommend you to create an issue on the GitHub with a brief proposal and discuss it with us first.

For smaller contributions just use this workflow:

Fork the project.
Add your features and or bug fixes.
Add tests. Tests are important for us.
Check your changes using composer check-all.
Add an entry to the Changelog's Unreleases section.
Send a pull request.

Setup the Development Environment

First, copy the URL of your fork and git clone it to your local machine.

cd graphql-php
composer install

Running tests

./vendor/bin/phpunit

Some tests have annotation @see it('<description>'). It is used for reference to same tests in graphql-js implementation with the same description.

Coding Standard

The coding standard of this project is based on Doctrine CS.

Run the inspections:

./vendor/bin/phpcs

Apply automatic code style fixes:

./vendor/bin/phpcbf

Static analysis

Based on PHPStan.

./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse --ansi --memory-limit 256M

Running benchmarks

Benchmarks are run via PHPBench.

./vendor/bin/phpbench run .

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