chore: Adding local testing steps to contributing guide

[ddixit14]

Hi team, just adding some stuff to the guide that maybe useful for contributors.

@suztomo Opened this new PR because I was unable to edit the last one, looks like I messed up with the head of that branch while working on the versioning strategy. Also, there are no steps to generate release-please command afaik. It is included in the node build command. Multi-line command is fixed.

@chingor13 can you please approve this one?

[suztomo]

node build command

Write down that.

In another project (owlbot bootstrapper) it is "npm compile && npm link"

[ddixit14]

node build command

Write down that.

I have already done that.

[suztomo]

@ddixit14 That 2nd part, "node build/src .." command, seems correct. But the 1st part, "release-please release-pr .." command, does not use the some new code without the command is rebuilt.

[ddixit14]

@ddixit14 That 2nd part, "node build/src .." command, seems correct. But the 1st part, "release-please release-pr .." command, does not use the some new code without the command is rebuilt.

I don't understand what you're trying to say.
The first command ""release-please release-pr .." is your normal CLI command. This is just an example of a release-please CLI command (this is not related to building from source or anything).
You can run the equivalent of this CLI command from your source (after doing some code changes) using the 2nd command.

[suztomo]

Now it's clear. Thank you.

[suztomo]

@bcoe Can you merge this?

[suztomo]

build/src/bin/release-please.js? Not typescript?