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Raine Revere
Raine Revere

Reputation: 33637

What’s the bit.dev equivalent of forking a repo and submitting a PR?

What’s the bit.dev equivalent of forking a repo and submitting a PR? I need to make a small change to https://bit.dev/mui-org/material-ui/swipeable-drawer. I can see that it is MIT licensed, and they have a code browser, but no .git endpoint from what I can tell.

I am an experienced developer but I haven’t used bit.dev before. I tried to find the answer in their extensive documentation, but it focuses on creating a component from scratch. It does not offer a clear way for developers who are new to bit.dev to modify an existing component. I posted in their Slack channel but nobody responded.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 361

Answers (2)

Nitsan Cohen
Nitsan Cohen

Reputation: 697

Bit lanes is what you're looking for. Using Bit lanes, you can import components that are not maintained by you (= you don't have access to that scope), create a lane on your scope, and then open a change request to merge the changes.

You can read more about it here: https://bit.dev/reference/change-requests/building-lanes

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Stoyanoff
Daniel Stoyanoff

Reputation: 1564

Perhaps you already got your answers, but..

There are 2 ways to contribute as far as I know:

  1. Know where the original repo of the author is and contribute there, which would eventually go to bit in a future release
  2. Checkout the components in a totally random location using bit, update and contribute back. As far as I am aware however, in order to do this, you should have permissions on the bit organization that you are targeting and not sure there is a way to do code reviews this way..

One thing to note though is that the MUI components in bit don't seem like maintained. The last updated was 2y ago, which is a really long time, considering the amount of development that the MUI team did recently, so I would just use their lib directly.

Upvotes: 1

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