Developer guide

Setup

The source code for Param is hosted on GitHub. To clone the source repository, issue the following command:

git clone https://github.com/holoviz/param.git

This will create a param directory at your file system location.

Param relies on hatch to manage the project. Follow the instructions to install it. Once installed, run the following command to create the default environment and activate it, it contains the dependencies required to develop Param:

hatch shell

Testing

The simplest way to run the unit tests is to run the following command:

hatch run tests

You can also run the examples tests, i.e. check that the notebooks run without any error, with:

hatch run examples

Documentation building

Run the following command to build the documentation:

hatch run docs:build

Once completed, the built site can be found in the builtdocs folder.