Developing Sourcegraph

Documentation for developers contributing to the Sourcegraph code base

Setup

Learn how to develop Sourcegraph on your machine.

Background information

Clarification and discussion about key concepts, architecture, and development stack.

Architecture

• Overview
• Introducing a new service

Development

• sg - the Sourcegraph developer tool
• Using Bazel
  • Bazel and Go code
  • Bazel and client code
  • Bazel and container images
  • Bazel FAQ
  • Writing a server integration test
• Developing the web clients
  • Developing the web app
  • Developing the code host integrations
  • Working with GraphQL
  • Wildcard Component Library
  • Styling UI
  • Accessibility
  • Temporary settings
  • Build process
• Developing the GraphQL API
• Developing the SCIM API
• Developing batch changes
• Developing code intelligence
• Developing code insights
• Developing code monitoring
• Developing observability
• Dependencies and generated code
• Code reviews
• Commit messages
• Exposing services
• Developing a store
• Developing a worker
• Developing an out-of-band migration
• Developing a background routine
• Testing
  • Testing principles and guidelines
  • Continuous integration
  • How to write and run tests
    • Testing Go code
    • Testing web code
• Building p4-fusion
• The gitserver API
• gRPC Tutorial

Git

• git gc and its modes of operations in Sourcegraph

Languages

• Tech stack
• Go
  • Error handling in Go
• TypeScript
• Bash
• Terraform

SQL

• Using PostgreSQL
• Migrations overview
• Migrations
• High-performance guides
  • Batch operations
  • Materialized cache

Security

• Security patterns
• Security policy
• How to disclose vulnerabilities.
• CSRF security model
• Sourcegraph secret formats

Testing

• Continuous integration
• Testing a pull request
• Testing principles
• Testing Go code
• Testing web code
• Code host test plans

Tools

• Renovate dependency updates
• Honeycomb
• GoLand
• Wolfi overview

Other

• Telemetry
• Adding, changing and debugging pings
• Deploy Sourcegraph with Helm chart (BETA)
• GitHub API oddities

How-to guides

Guides to help with troubleshooting, configuring test instances, debugging, and more.

New features

• How to add support for a language
• How to use feature flags
• How to add caching

Observability

• How to add observability
• How to add logging
• How to find monitoring
• How to add monitoring
• Set up local monitoring development
• Set up local OpenTelemetry development

Plans and licenses

• How to generate a license key for testing and debugging

Documentation

• Developing the product documentation

Executors

• How to deploy a new executor image

Testing

• How to write and run tests
• Run a local Sourcegraph instance behind ngrok
• Testing against code hosts
  • Configure a test instance of Phabricator and Gitolite
  • Test a Phabricator and Gitolite instance
  • Sync repositories from gitolite.sgdev.org

Contributing

• Open source FAQ
• Code of conduct
• Project setup and CI checks for frontend issues
• Accepting an external contribution guide