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# Contributing Quick Start
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Rust Analyzer is just a usual rust project, which is organized as a Cargo
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workspace, builds on stable and doesn't depend on C libraries. So, just
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```
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$ cargo test
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```
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should be enough to get you started!
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To learn more about how rust-analyzer works, see
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[./architecture.md](./architecture.md) document.
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We also publish rustdoc docs to pages:
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https://rust-analyzer.github.io/rust-analyzer/ra_ide_api/index.html
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Various organizational and process issues are discussed in this document.
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# Getting in Touch
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Rust Analyzer is a part of [RLS-2.0 working
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group](https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/tree/6a769c13656c0a6959ebc09e7b1f7c09b86fb9c0/working-groups/rls-2.0).
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Discussion happens in this Zulip stream:
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https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/185405-t-compiler.2Fwg-rls-2.2E0
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# Work List
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We have this "work list" paper document:
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https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/RLS-2.0-work-list--AZ3BgHKKCtqszbsi3gi6sjchAQ-42vbnxzuKq2lKwW0mkn8Y
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It shows what everyone is working on right now. If you want to (this is not
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mandatory), add yourself to the list!
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# Issue Labels
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* [good-first-issue](https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/labels/good%20first%20issue)
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are good issues to get into the project.
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* [E-mentor](https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AE-mentor)
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issues have links to the code in question and tests.
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* [E-easy](https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AE-easy),
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[E-medium](https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AE-medium),
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[E-hard](https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AE-hard),
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labels are *estimates* for how hard would be to write a fix.
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* [E-fun](https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AE-fun)
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is for cool, but probably hard stuff.
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# CI
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We use Travis for CI. Most of the things, including formatting, are checked by
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`cargo test` so, if `cargo test` passes locally, that's a good sign that CI will
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be green as well. We use bors-ng to enforce the [not rocket
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science](https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html) rule.
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You can run `cargo format-hook` to install git-hook to run rustfmt on commit.
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# Code organization
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All Rust code lives in the `crates` top-level directory, and is organized as a
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single Cargo workspace. The `editors` top-level directory contains code for
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integrating with editors. Currently, it contains plugins for VS Code (in
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typescript) and Emacs (in elisp). The `docs` top-level directory contains both
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developer and user documentation.
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We have some automation infra in Rust in the `crates/tool` package. It contains
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stuff like formatting checking, code generation and powers `cargo install-code`.
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The latter syntax is achieved with the help of cargo aliases (see `.cargo`
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directory).
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# Launching rust-analyzer
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Debugging language server can be tricky: LSP is rather chatty, so driving it
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from the command line is not really feasible, driving it via VS Code requires
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interacting with two processes.
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For this reason, the best way to see how rust-analyzer works is to find a
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relevant test and execute it (VS Code includes an action for running a single
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test).
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However, launching a VS Code instance with locally build language server is
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possible. There's even a VS Code task for this, so just <kbd>F5</kbd> should
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work (thanks, [@andrew-w-ross](https://github.com/andrew-w-ross)!).
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I often just install development version with `cargo jinstall-lsp` and
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restart the host VS Code.
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See [./debugging.md](./debugging.md) for how to attach to rust-analyzer with
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debugger, and don't forget that rust-analyzer has useful `pd` snippet and `dbg`
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postfix completion for printf debugging :-)
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# Working With VS Code Extension
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To work on the VS Code extension, launch code inside `editors/code` and use `F5`
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to launch/debug. To automatically apply formatter and linter suggestions, use
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`npm run fix`.
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# Logging
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Logging is done by both rust-analyzer and VS Code, so it might be tricky to
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figure out where logs go.
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Inside rust-analyzer, we use the standard `log` crate for logging, and
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`flexi_logger` for logging frotend. By default, log goes to stderr (the same as
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with `env_logger`), but the stderr itself is processed by VS Code. To mirror
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logs to a `./log` directory, set `RA_INTERNAL_MODE=1` environmental variable.
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To see stderr in the running VS Code instance, go to the "Output" tab of the
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panel and select `rust-analyzer`. This shows `eprintln!` as well. Note that
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`stdout` is used for the actual protocol, so `println!` will break things.
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To log all communication between the server and the client, there are two choices:
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* you can log on the server side, by running something like
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env RUST_LOG=gen_lsp_server=trace code .
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```
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* you can log on the client side, by enabling `"rust-analyzer.trace.server":
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"verbose"` workspace setting. These logs are shown in a separate tab in the
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output and could be used with LSP inspector. Kudos to
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[@DJMcNab](https://github.com/DJMcNab) for setting this awesome infra up!
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There's also two VS Code commands which might be of interest:
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* `Rust Analyzer: Status` shows some memory-usage statistics. To take full
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advantage of it, you need to compile rust-analyzer with jemalloc support:
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$ cargo install --path crates/ra_lsp_server --force --features jemalloc
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```
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There's an alias for this: `cargo jinstall-lsp`.
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* `Rust Analyzer: Syntax Tree` shows syntax tree of the current file/selection.
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