From a9add384914c5ae3d13efa038170cde9e81ac045 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tiago Costa Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 03:13:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs(NA): add node-gyp setup instructions to the contributing guide. (#60116) (#60143) --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 9b658581db39..a99bf314fa8e 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ Bootstrap Kibana and install all the dependencies yarn kbn bootstrap ``` +> Node.js native modules could be in use and node-gyp is the tool used to build them. There are tools you need to install per platform and python versions you need to be using. Please see https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation and follow the guide according your platform. + (You can also run `yarn kbn` to see the other available commands. For more info about this tool, see https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/packages/kbn-pm.) Start elasticsearch from a nightly snapshot.