CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to Undici

• Guides
  • Update llhttp
  • Lint
  • Test
  • Coverage
  • Releases
  • Update WPTs
  • Building for externally shared node builtins
  • [Benchmarks](#benchmarks
  • Documentation
• Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
  • Moderation Policy

Guides

This is a collection of guides on how to run and update undici, and how to run different parts of the project.

Update llhttp

The HTTP parser used by undici is a WebAssembly build of llhttp.

While the project itself provides a way to compile targeting WebAssembly, at the moment we embed the sources directly and compile the module in undici.

The deps/llhttp/include folder contains the C header files, while the deps/llhttp/src folder contains the C source files needed to compile the module.

The lib/llhttp folder contains the .js transpiled assets required to implement a parser.

The following are the steps required to perform an update.

Clone the llhttp project

git clone git@github.com:nodejs/llhttp.git

cd llhttp

Checkout a llhttp release

git checkout <tag>

Install the llhttp dependencies

npm i

Run the wasm build script

This requires docker installed on your machine.

npm run build-wasm

Copy the sources to undici

cp build/wasm/*.js <your-path-to-undici>/lib/llhttp/

cp build/wasm/*.js.map <your-path-to-undici>/lib/llhttp/

cp build/wasm/*.d.ts <your-path-to-undici>/lib/llhttp/

cp src/native/api.c src/native/http.c build/c/llhttp.c <your-path-to-undici>/deps/llhttp/src/

cp src/native/api.h build/llhttp.h <your-path-to-undici>/deps/llhttp/include/

Build the WebAssembly module in undici

This requires docker installed on your machine.

cd <your-path-to-undici>

npm run build:wasm

Commit the contents of lib/llhttp

Create a commit which includes all of the updated files in lib/llhttp.

Update WPTs

undici runs a subset of the web-platform-tests.

Here are the steps to update them.

Skip the tutorial

git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch epochs/daily --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.git test/wpt/tests
cd test/wpt/tests

git sparse-checkout add /resources
git sparse-checkout add /interfaces
git sparse-checkout add /common
git sparse-checkout add /fetch
git sparse-checkout add /FileAPI
git sparse-checkout add /xhr
git sparse-checkout add /websockets
git sparse-checkout add /mimesniff
git sparse-checkout add /storage
git sparse-checkout add /service-workers

Sparse-clone the wpt repo

git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch epochs/daily --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.git test/wpt/tests

cd test/wpt/tests

Checkout the tests

Only run the commands for the folder(s) you want to update.

git sparse-checkout add /fetch
git sparse-checkout add /FileAPI
git sparse-checkout add /xhr
git sparse-checkout add /websockets
git sparse-checkout add /resources
git sparse-checkout add /common

# etc

Run the tests

Run the tests to ensure that any new failures are marked as such.

You can mark tests as failing in their corresponding status file.

npm run test:wpt

Lint

npm run lint

Test

npm run test

Coverage

npm run coverage

Issuing Releases

Release is automatic on commit to main which bumps the package.json version field. Use the "Create release PR" github action to generate a release PR.

Building for externally shared node builtins

If you are packaging undici for a distro, this might help if you would like to use an unbundled version instead of bundling one in libnode.so.

To enable this, pass EXTERNAL_PATH=/path/to/global/node_modules/undici to build/wasm.js. You shall also pass this path to --shared-builtin-undici/undici-path in Node.js's configure.py.

Benchmarks

cd benchmarks && npm i && npm run bench

The benchmarks will be available at http://localhost:3042.

Documentation

cd docs && npm i && npm run serve

The documentation will be available at http://localhost:3000.

Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

• (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or

• (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or

• (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it.

• (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved.

Moderation Policy

The Node.js Moderation Policy applies to this project.