When Composer pulls this repo into your project's /vendor folder it does not bring the .git folder required for contributing. Lucky for you, your friendly local developer has made a bash script to grab it for you!
Run the following to make the vendor/nomensa/form-builder a fully fledged Git repo:
$ bash getgitWrite your code conforming to all the standards that Laravel does. Space-indentation, PSR-2 style. Make it beautiful.
From the package directory run composer install to download the PHPUnit binaries and then simply run composer test to run the tests.
Obviously you're going to want to write tests to cover your new code so do that in the tests folder.
Commit your work on the master branch.
Push master branch to origin.
Have a look at what tags currently exist:
$ git fetch
$ git tagTag your new work with a new version number:
git tag -a v0.6.0 -m "Added great new method"
Push the tag to the GitHub repo:
git push origin v0.6.0
Change directory back up 3 levels to app level and tell Composer to use the new version of the package:
$ composer update nomensa/form-builder
$ composer require nomensa/form-builder ~0.19.2
N.B. I recommend using the tilda to lock major and minor version number but allow patch version to be higher.