Developer guide

So you want to contribute code to this project? Excellent! We're glad you're here. Here's what you need to do.

Fork this repository on GitHub, and clone locally with git clone.

You will need to install node.js, nvm, and yarn in your environment to properly pull down dependencies to build and bootstrap the plugin.

Download OpenSearch for the version that matches the OpenSearch Dashboards version specified in package.json.
Download and install the appropriate Security Analytics OpenSearch Plugin.
Download the OpenSearch Dashboards source code for the version specified in package.json you want to set up.

See the OpenSearch Dashboards contributing guide and developer guide for more instructions on setting up your development environment.
Change your node version to the version specified in .node-version inside the OpenSearch Dashboards root directory (this can be done with the nvm use command).
Create a plugins directory inside the OpenSearch Dashboards source code directory, if plugins directory doesn't exist.
Check out this package from version control into the plugins directory.
Run yarn osd bootstrap inside OpenSearch-Dashboards/plugins/security-analytics-dashboards-plugin.

Ultimately, your directory structure should look like this:

.
├── OpenSearch-Dashboards
│   └──plugins
│      └── security-analytics-dashboards-plugin

To build the plugin's distributable zip simply run yarn build.

Example output: ./build/security-analytics-dashboards-1.0.0.0.zip

In the base OpenSearch Dashboards directory, run

yarn start --no-base-path

Starts OpenSearch Dashboards and includes this plugin. OpenSearch Dashboards will be available on localhost:5601.

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