GateKeeper is a pretty nifty user registration, authentication and authorization library which uses its own database to store and query the user records. This means that it’s completely decoupled from your main app (so you can, essentially, use Postgre or Mongo for your business logic while using a completely different engine like MySQL for basic user records) and easy to tweak and extend.
This post isn’t about Gatekeeper per-se, though - an example of its use will be covered in a later post. It’s about contributing to open source, and going about the right way to doing it.
This post isn’t about Gatekeeper per-se, though. It’s about contributing to open source, and going about the right way to doing it.
In this tutorial, we’ll extend GateKeeper with a count feature. Currently, in order to find out the total number of users in the database one would have to fetch them all, then count them - either that or write a query to do so manually. But it might be better if this were built into the adapter interface so that it’s not only a native feature, but also a requirement for future database engines to be added.
Step 1: Ask the Owner
The first step of contributing to open source is doing due diligence. This can be as simple as asking the repo owner about the status of this feature, in order to make sure it isn’t planned and is, in fact, desirable. An issue in the repo is often enough, as evident in this case.
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by Bruno Skvorc via SitePoint
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