Contributing
January 5, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
You can use pnpm watch --extension-folder from the Podman Desktop directory to automatically rebuild and test the bootc extension:
git clone https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop
git clone https://github.com/podman-desktop/extension-bootc
cd podman-desktop
pnpm watch --extension-folder ../extension-bootc/packages/backend
Testing & Developing
Workflow for developing:
# Bootc root folder:
pnpm watch
# In a separate terminal in the Podman Desktop folder:
pnpm watch --extension-folder ../extension-bootc/packages/backend
Workflow for testing and validation checking before PR submission:
# Tests
pnpm test
# Formatting, linting and typecheck
pnpm format:fix && pnpm lint:fix && pnpm typecheck