I made this for anyone who wants to start but is frustrated by the fact that "good first issues" aren't always beginner-friendly, based on my experience so far.
Contributing to Open Source Can Change Your Life - Here’s How to Do It
- Fork this repo
- Navigate to your desktop and clone the repo you just forked
cd desktop
git clone <url>
cd <repoName>
- Install dependencies!
npm install
(orpnpm install
oryarn
). After you have installed those, go ahead and installnpm install @picocss/pico
- Make a branch and name it whatever you like
git branch <branchName>
git checkout <branchName>
- Make changes!
- Navigate to src folder and then click on the routes folder. In there, you should see a file called contributors.ts.
- Add the following code(replace the info with yours of course) in contributors.ts
// contributors add your code below this line
{
name: 'Raul',
github: 'https://github.com/Raulj123'
},
- Run the command below to see your changes.
npm run dev
- You're done! Go ahead and push your changes bruh 😤
I decided to make this project at 11 PM at night while I was looking for beginner-friendly open source projects. Unfortunately, those are hard to find 😞