Contributing¶

👷 For Platform Contributors: This section is for developers contributing to Forge itself. If you're building applications with Forge, see Guides.

This section contains documentation for developers contributing to and maintaining the Forge platform.

🚀 Getting Started¶

Forge Monorepo - Overview of the Forge platform architecture and components
Design System - Visual design tokens, components, and styling guidelines
GitHub Copilot Configuration - Agent Skills, user-invocable workflow skills, and instructions for platform development assistance

How-to guides for common contributor tasks:

Local Testing of Terraform Modules - Test Terraform modules locally before publishing
MSBuild Reference Swap System - Swap between PackageReference and ProjectReference for local development
Terraform Module Source Swapper - Swap Terraform module sources for local development
Project Templates - Creating and modifying dotnet new templates for the platform
Update-ForgePackageConfig.ps1 - .NET package-config automation, now part of the azure-devops skill
Release Process - How to create and publish a new release

Technical reference for the platform:

Terraform Repositories Inventory - Complete list of Terraform repositories and modules