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Of course we encourage community developers to work on ANY issue filed on our Github regardless of how it’s tagged, however if you pick up or create an issue without the “Good first issue” tag it would be best if you leave a comment on the issue so that the core team can give you any guidance required, especially around UI heavy features or issues which require cross platform integration.
## Developer Setup Tips
## Development setup
## Node.js
### Tips
#### Node.js
You'll need a [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) version which matches our current version. You can check [`.nvmrc` in the `unstable` branch](https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/blob/unstable/.nvmrc) to see what the current version is.
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- Some node version management tools can read from the `.nvmrc` file and automatically make the change. If you use [asdf](https://asdf-vm.com/) you can make a [config change](https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html#using-existing-tool-version-files) to support the `.nvmrc` file.
- We use [Yarn Classic](https://classic.yarnpkg.com) as our package manager. You can install it by running `npm install --global yarn`.
## Python
#### Python
You will need a [Python](https://www.python.org) version which matches our current version. You can check [`.tool-versions` in the `unstable` branch](https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/blob/unstable/.tool-versions) to see what the current version is.
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pip install setuptools
```
## Platform Specific Instructions
### Linux
- Depending on your distribution, you might need to install [hunspell](https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell) and your specific locale (`hunspell-<lang>`) e.g. `hunspell-en-au`.
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The easiest way to run all tests at once is `yarn test`.
## Committing your changes
## Commit your changes
Before a commit is accepted the staged changes will be formatted using [prettier](https://prettier.io/) and linted using [eslint](https://eslint.org/). The commit will be reverted if files are formatted or lint errors are returned.
### Commit Message Convention
### Commit Message Conventions
This project follows [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/)