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Contributing

We would    for you to contribute to SurrealDB and help make it better! We want contributing to SurrealDB to be fun, enjoyable, and educational for anyone and everyone. All contributions are welcome, including features, bugfixes, and documentation changes, as well as updates and tweaks, blog posts, workshops, and everything else.

How to start

If you are worried or don’t know where to start, check out our next section explaining what kind of help we could use and where can you get involved. You can ask us a question on GitHub discussions, or by tweeting @tobiemh or @surrealdb on Twitter. Alternatively chat with the SurrealDB team on Discord.

Code of conduct

Help us keep SurrealDB open and inclusive. Please read and follow our Code of Conduct.

Coding standards

SurrealDB uses rustfmt to ensure that all code is formatted to the same standards. To install rustfmt run the following code:

rustup component add rustfmt

Getting started from source

To set up a working development environment, you can either use the Nix package manager or you can install dependencies manually and ensure that you have rustup installed, and fork the project git repository.

Please note that these instructions are for setting up a functional dev environment. If you just want to install SurrealDB for day-to-day usage and not as a code maintainer use this installation guide. If you want to get started integrating SurrealDB into your app, view the integration tutorials.

# Use the default (stable) release channel if prompted
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
git clone git@github.com:[YOUR_FORK_HERE]/surrealdb.git
cd surrealdb
cargo run -- help

To run the SurrealDB database server, use the following command:

cargo run --no-default-features --features storage-mem,http,scripting -- start --log trace --user root --pass root memory

To listen to code changes as you develop, use the following command:

cargo watch -x 'run --no-default-features --features storage-mem,http,scripting -- start --log trace --user root --pass root memory'

SurrealDB runs by default on port 8000. To change the default port, use the following command:

cargo run --no-default-features --features storage-mem,http,scripting -- start --log trace --user root --pass root --bind 0.0.0.0:9000 memory

To run all tests manually, use the SurrealDB command-line from your terminal:

cargo test

To build a production-ready SurrealDB binary, execute the following command:

cargo build --release

Scalability and Performance

SurrealDB is designed to be fast, and to scale. It is built to work in both a single-node setup, and as a distributed cluster. In distributed mode, SurrealDB builds upon TiKV. Please keep in mind that SurrealDB is designed to be run in different environments, with different configurations, and at differing scales.

When contributing code, please take into account the following considerations:

  • SurrealDB startup time
  • Query execution time
  • Query response times
  • Query throughput
  • Requests per second
  • Websocket connections
  • Network usage
  • Memory usage

Security and Privacy

We take the security of SurrealDB code, software, and cloud platform very seriously. If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in SurrealDB, we encourage you to let us know right away. We will investigate all legitimate reports and do our best to quickly fix the problem.

Please report any issues or vulnerabilities to security@surrealdb.com, instead of posting a public issue in GitHub. Please include the SurrealDB version identifier, by running surreal version on the command-line, and details on how the vulnerability can be exploited.

When developing, make sure to follow the best industry standards and practices.

External dependencies

Please avoid introducing new dependencies to SurrealDB without consulting the team. New dependencies can be very helpful but also introduce new security and privacy issues, complexity, and impact total docker image size. Adding a new dependency should have vital value on the product with minimum possible risk.

Introducing new features

We would    you to contribute to SurrealDB, but we would also like to make sure SurrealDB is as great as possible and loyal to its vision and mission statement. For us to find the right balance, please open a question on GitHub discussions with any ideas before introducing a new pull request. This will allow the SurrealDB community to have sufficient discussion about the new feature value and how it fits in the product roadmap and vision.

This is also important for the SurrealDB lead developers to be able to give technical input and different emphasis regarding the feature design and architecture. Some bigger features might need to go through our RFC process.

Submitting a pull request

Branch naming convention is as following

TYPE-ISSUE_ID-DESCRIPTION

For example:

bugfix-548-ensure-queries-execute-sequentially

Where TYPE can be one of the following:

  • refactor - code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
  • feature - code changes that add a new feature
  • bugfix - code changes that fix a bug
  • docs - documentation only changes
  • ci - changes related to CI system

For the initial start, fork the project and use git clone command to download the repository to your computer. A standard procedure for working on an issue would be to:

  1. Clone the surrealdb repository and download to your computer.

    git clone https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

    (Optional): Install pre-commit to run the checks before each commit and run:

    pre-commit install

  2. Pull all changes from the upstream main branch, before creating a new branch - to ensure that your main branch is up-to-date with the latest changes:

    git pull

  3. Create new branch from main like: bugfix-548-ensure-queries-execute-sequentially:

    git checkout -b "[the name of your branch]"

  4. Make changes to the code, and ensure all code changes are formatted correctly:

    cargo fmt

  5. Commit your changes when finished:

    git add -A
git commit -m "[your commit message]"

  6. Push changes to GitHub:

    git push origin "[the name of your branch]"

  7. Submit your changes for review, by going to your repository on GitHub and clicking the Compare & pull request button.

  8. Ensure that you have entered a commit message which details about the changes, and what the pull request is for.

  9. Now submit the pull request by clicking the Create pull request button.

  10. Wait for code review and approval.

  11. After approval, merge your pull request.

Other Ways to Help

Pull requests are great, but there are many other areas where you can help.

Blogging and speaking

Blogging, speaking about, or creating tutorials about one of SurrealDB's many features. Mention @surrealdb on Twitter, and email community@surrealdb.com so we can give pointers and tips and help you spread the word by promoting your content on the different SurrealDB communication channels. Please add your blog posts and videos of talks to our showcase repo on GitHub.

Presenting at meetups

Presenting at meetups and conferences about your SurrealDB projects. Your unique challenges and successes in building things with SurrealDB can provide great speaking material. We’d love to review your talk abstract, so get in touch with us if you’d like some help!

Feedback, bugs, and ideas

Sending feedback is a great way for us to understand your different use cases of SurrealDB better. If you want to share your experience with SurrealDB, or if you want to discuss any ideas, you can start a discussion on GitHub discussions, chat with the SurrealDB team on Discord, or you can tweet @tobiemh or @surrealdb on Twitter. If you have any issues, or have found a bug, then feel free to create an issue on GitHub issues.

Documentation improvements

Submitting documentation updates, enhancements, designs, or bug fixes, and fixing any spelling or grammar errors will be very much appreciated.

Joining our community

Join our growing community around the world, for help, ideas, and discussions regarding SurrealDB.