Thank you for choosing to contribute to Formbricks. Before you start, please familiarize yourself with our coding standards and best practices, as these are key criteria for pull request reviews. Your contributions are greatly valued, and if you have any questions about these guidelines, please don't hesitate to ask.

Table of content

• Use Typescript types throughout the application
• Always prioritise Server components
• Fetch data only in server components
• Use Server-Action for mutations
• Use service abstraction instead of direct database calls
• Handle authentication and CORS in management APIs
• Always Document API changes
• Constants should be in the packages folder
• Types should be in the packages folder
• Read server-side environment variables from constants.ts

Use Typescript types throughout the application

The entire codebase is written in TypeScript, and it is crucial that every new piece of code is thoroughly and accurately typed. Instead of resorting to using the any type for variables, please ensure that you explicitly specify the appropriate type.

Always prioritise Server components

When it comes to prioritizing the development of our components, our main focus is on building them as server components. This ensures that they are optimized for server-side rendering and can handle any necessary interactivity seamlessly. However, in cases where a component requires client-side interactivity, we are able to adapt it into a client component. If you would like to learn more about the advantages and benefits of server components, we highly recommend reading the comprehensive documentation provided by Next.js, which can be accessed here.