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manually by running:</p><divclass="language-bash codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_biex"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_bY9V thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_e6Vv"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">npm</span><spanclass="token plain"> run lint</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup__atx"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_eSgA"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_y97N"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_LjdS"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>If some errors are returned, you can attempt to fix them using:</p><divclass="language-bash codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_biex"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_bY9V thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_e6Vv"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">npm</span><spanclass="token plain"> run </span><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">format</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup__atx"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_eSgA"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_y97N"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_LjdS"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="project-structure">Project structure<aclass="hash-link"href="#project-structure"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h2><p>The following is a description of the primary folders in Puppeteer:</p><ul><li><code>src</code> - contains the source code for Puppeteer.</li><li><code>test/src</code> - contains the source code for Puppeteer tests.</li><li><code>utils</code>/<code>scripts</code> - contains various scripts.</li><li><code>utils/testserver</code> - contains the source code for our test servers in testing.</li><li><code>compat</code> - contains code separated by module import type. See <ahref="https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/compat/README.md"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"><code>compat/README.md</code></a> for details.</li><li><code>test-d</code> contains type tests using <ahref="https://github.com/SamVerschueren/tsd"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"><code>tsd</code></a>.</li><li><code>vendor</code> contains all dependencies that we vendor into the final build. See the <ahref="https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/vendor/README.md"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"><code>vendor/README.md</code></a> for details.</li></ul><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="shipping-cjs-and-esm-bundles">Shipping CJS and ESM bundles<aclass="hash-link"href="#shipping-cjs-and-esm-bundles"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>Puppeteer ships both CommonJS and ES modules, therefore we maintain two <code>tsconfig</code> files for each project: <code>tsconfig.esm.json</code> and <code>tsconfig.cjs.json</code>. At build time we compile twice, once for CommonJS and once for ES modules.</p><p>We compile into the <code>lib</code> directory which is what we publish on the npm repository and it's structured like so:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#
To do so, run <code>utils/check_availability.js -rd</code> to find the latest suitable <code>dev</code> Chromium revision (see <code>utils/check_availability.js -help</code> for more options).</li><li>Update <code>src/revisions.ts</code> with the found revision number.</li><li>Update <code>versions.js</code> with the new Chromium-to-Puppeteer version mapping and update <code>lastMaintainedChromiumVersion</code> with the latest stable Chrome version.</li><li>Run <code>npm run check:protocol-revision</code>.
If it fails, update <code>package.json</code> with the expected <code>devtools-protocol</code> version.</li><li>Run <code>npm run build</code> and <code>npm install</code>.</li><li>Run <code>npm test</code> and ensure that all tests pass. If a test fails, <ahref="#bisecting-upstream-changes">bisect</a> the upstream cause of the failure, and either update the test expectations accordingly (if it was an intended change) or work around the changes in Puppeteer (if it’s not desirable to change Puppeteer’s observable behavior).</li><li>Commit and push your changes and open a pull request.
The commit message must contain the version in <code>Chromium <version> (<revision>)</code> format to ensure that <ahref="https://pptr.dev/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">pptr.dev</a> can parse it correctly, e.g. <code>'feat(chromium): roll to Chromium 90.0.4427.0 (r856583)'</code>.</li></ol><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="bisecting-upstream-changes">Bisecting upstream changes<aclass="hash-link"href="#bisecting-upstream-changes"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>Sometimes, performing a Chromium roll causes tests to fail. To figure out the cause, you need to bisect Chromium revisions to figure out the earliest possible revision that changed the behavior. The script in <code>utils/bisect.js</code> can be helpful here. Given a pattern for one or more unit tests, it will automatically bisect the current range:</p><divclass="language-sh codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_biex"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-sh codeBlock_bY9V thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_e6Vv"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">node utils/bisect.js --good 686378 --bad 706915 script.js</span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">node utils/bisect.js --unit-test Response.fromCache</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup__atx"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_eSgA"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_y97N"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_LjdS"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>By default, it will use the Chromium revision in <code>src/revisions.ts</code> from the <code>main</code> branch and from the working tree to determine the range to bisect.</p><h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id="releasing-to-npm">Releasing to npm<aclass="hash-link"href="#releasing-to-npm"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h2><p>We use <ahref="https://github.com/googleapis/release-please"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">release-please</a> to automate releases. When a release should be done, check for the release PR in our <ahref="https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/pulls"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">pull requests</a> and merge it.</p></div></article><navclass="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg"aria-label="Docs pages navigation"><aclass="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--prev"href="/troubleshooting"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Previous</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">Troubleshooting</div></a><aclass="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--next"href="/chromium-support"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Next</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">Chromium Support</div></a></nav></div></div><divclass="col col--3"><divclass="tableOfContents_bqdL thin-scrollbar theme-doc-toc-desktop"><ulclass="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><ahref="#contributor-license-agreement"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Contributor License Agreement</a></li><li><ahref="#getting-code"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Getting Code</a></li><li><ahref="#code-reviews"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Code reviews</a></li><li><ahref="#code-style"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Code Style</a></li><li><ahref="#project-structure"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Project structure</a><ul><li><ahref="#shipping-cjs-and-esm-bundles"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Shipping CJS and ESM bundles</a></li><li><ahref="#tsconfigjson-for-the-tests"class="table-of-contents__linktoc-highlight
