metrics/CONTRIBUTING.md

📊 GitHub metrics

💪 Interested in contributing ?

Nice ! Read the few sections below to understand how this project is structured.

👨‍💻 General informations

Adding new metrics through GraphQL API, REST API or Third-Party service

When possible, try to use the GitHub GraphQL API by editing queries in source/queries or the GitHub Rest API. Use puppeteer in last resort.

Data computing and formatting should be made in templates/*/template.mjs if it's template specific, or in templates/common.mjs if it can be made available for all templates.

Raw queried data should be be exposed directly into data.user, whereas computed data should be stored in data.computed.

Updating SVG templates

SVG templates are located in templates/*/image.svg and include CSS from templates/*/style.css.

These are rendered through EJS, so it is actually possible to include variables (e.g. <%= user.name %>) and execute simple code, like control statements.

Exposed variables contains user, computed and plugins data, along with custom style and fonts.

Creating a new plugin

Start by creating a new folder in source/plugins, along with its entry point index.mjs.

A plugin function has access to a lot of data, such as user's login, rest and graphql GitHub API handlers, imports of various utilitaries functions and modules, and various data. See others plugins for examples.

Plugins should be self-sufficient and independant from others plugins.

Plugins errors should be handled gracefully by displaying an error message when it fails.

For user's convenience, a placeholder image can be generated to preview metrics without executing queries. This use a Proxy which "fills" with dummy data, though it has its limit (especially with iterable structures) so you may need to patch the placeholder function. It is located in source/metrics.mjs

When adding new options, be sure to patch both action.yml and action/index.mjs to support them.

Metrics web instance

Web instance code is located in source/app.mjs and instantiates an express server app.

GitHub action

GitHub action code is located in action/index.mjs and retrieves action parameters, which are converted into q parameters. Once SVG image is generated through source/metrics.mjs, it is committed to user's repository.

Testing new features

To test new features, setup a metrics web instance with a personal token and debug mode enabled. You can then test SVG renders in your browser and ensure that everything works as expected.

🗛 Fonts

Follow the following process to integrate custom fonts. It should be avoided when possible as it increases drastically the size of generated metrics.

1. Find a font on fonts.google.com

• Select regular, bold, italic and bold+italic fonts
• Open embed tab and extract the href

2. Open extracted href and append &text= params with used characters from SVG

• e.g. &text=%26%27"%7C%60%5E%40°%3F!%23%24%25()*%2B%2C-.%2F0123456789%3A%3B<%3D>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ%5B%5D_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz%7B%7D~─└├▇□✕

3. Download each font file from url links from the generated stylesheet
4. Convert them into base64 with woff extension on [transfonter.org]https://transfonter.org/) and download archive
5. Extract archive and copy the content of the generated stylesheet to templates/*/fonts.css
6. Update your template

• Include <defs><style><%= fonts %></style></defs> to your templates/*/image.svg
• Edit your templates/*/style.css to use yout new font

🗂️ Project structure

Metrics generator

• source/setup.mjs contains configuration setup
• source/metrics.mjs contains the metrics renderer
• source/templates/* contains templates files
• source/templates/*/image.svg contains the image template used to render metrics
• source/templates/*/style.css contains the style used to render metrics
• source/templates/*/fonts.css contains additional fonts used to render metrics
• source/templates/*/template.mjs contains the code used to prepare metrics data before rendering
• source/plugins/* contains source code of plugins
• source/queries/* contains GraphQL queries

Web instance

• index.mjs contains metrics web instance entry point
• source/app.mjs contains metrics web instance source code
• source/html/* contains metrics web instance static files

GitHub action

• action.yml contains GitHub action descriptor
• action/index.mjs contains GitHub action source code
• action/dist/index.js contains compiled the GitHub action code (auto-generated)

Others

• tests/metrics.mjs contains tests
• utils/build.mjs contains a tool used to rebuild plugins and template indexes and GitHub action

📦 Used packages

• express/express.js and expressjs/compression
  • To serve, compute and render a GitHub user's metrics
• nfriedly/express-rate-limit
  • To apply rate limiting on server and avoid spams and hitting GitHub API's own rate limit
• octokit/graphql.js and octokit/rest.js
  • To perform request to GitHub GraphQL API and GitHub REST API
• mde/ejs
  • To render SVG images
• ptarjan/node-cache
  • To cache generated content
• renanbastos93/image-to-base64
  • To generate base64 representation of users' avatars
• svg/svgo
  • To optimize generated SVG
• axios/axios
  • To make HTTP/S requests
• actions/toolkit and vercel/ncc
  • To build the GitHub Action
• vuejs/vue and egoist/vue-prism-component + PrismJS/prism
  • To display server application
• puppeteer/puppeteer
  • To scrap the web
• libxmljs/libxmljs
  • To test and verify SVG validity
• Marak/colors.js
  • To print colors in console
• babel/minify
  • To minify code