#How To Contribute
If you would like to contribute to the PowerBI Custom Visuals CLI Tools there are many ways you can help.
##Report issues
First, please do a search in open issues to see if the issue or feature request has already been filed. If there is an issue add your comments to this issue.
If your issue is a question then please ask the question on Stack Overflow using the tags PowerBI
and pbiviz
##Contributing Code
TODO: more details about how to contribute code
####Build from source
- Install dependencies
- Fork this reporitory
- Clone your fork using git
- Navigate into the repository directory
- Run
npm install
to install all dependencies - Run
npm link
to link the module globally
Note: If pbiviz isn't working globally you may need to restart your terminal.
####Running and modifying
Once the repository is linked you can run pbiviz
anywhere on your computer and it will reference the repository version. This makes it easy to make modifications and test them instantly.
Dependencies
Before you can run (or install) the command line tools you must install NodeJS.
- NodeJS 4.0+ Required (5.0 recommended) - Download NodeJS