A beginners friendly repository to help you get started with your Hacktoberfest 2022 journey🚀.
If you have not contributed to hacktoberfest or any open-source software previously then follow these steps:
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Go to Hacktoberfest website and sign in there using your GitHub or Gitlab account.
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Make sure you installed and setup Git on your local machine. If it isn't, download and install it from here.
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Fork this repository by clicking on the
Forkbutton located on top right corner. -
Once it is forked, clone the repository in your computer through following command.
git clone url_of_your_forked_copy- This repository consist of 3 modules.
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Open a particular module in which you are comfortable, for me its react. Each module contains an application template. Check out the template. Decide your page/section in that module which you want to contribute.
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Open an
issuethrough issues tab before start working. -
Just make sure someone have not open/request that particular issue before you. In that case you will not be eligible to work on it. The open issue should look something like this:
Module: Put your module name here like React
Page/Section: Put the name of the page/section here on which you want
to work like About section, login page etc⚠ Warning: A person can only contribute to a single module, as well as one section or page.
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Now navigate to the cloned repository and Open it in your preferred code editor. Also, open a terminal in this directory.
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Now type in the following command in the terminal and replace
module/section-namewith your decided module and section name.
git checkout -b module/section-name-
Now start writing your code 💥.
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Once you have done all this, commit your changes to GitHub. You can do this with the following commands. Make sure you execute them one by one in order.
# copy and paste the following in the terminal
git add .
# copy and paste the following in the terminal after you have executed the previous command.
git commit -m "Complete section-name of module-name"
# copy and paste the following in the terminal after you have executed the previous command
git push -u origin module/section-name-
Now open the forked repository on your GitHub. You will see a box at the top telling you that some changes are pushed. You will also see a button called
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Now add a title, some description and yayyyy! You have opened a pull request in this repository.
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Also star this repository and follow me if you haven't yet. 😁
You need to open four valid pull requests in order to complete the challenge. After contributing to this repo you need three more PRs.
- Go to the pull request tab.
- Click on new pull request. 💥
- Describe the pull request.
- Click on create pull request.
- Add any comments and title you want to add with it.
- Go to the issues tab.
- Click on new issue. 💥
- Describe the issue.
- Click on submit new issue
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If you are contributing for the first time, check this repository.
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If you don't know how to fork a repository. check this out.
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If you don't know how to open an issue. Check this out.
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Want to contribute to other repositories that are participating in Hacktoberfest, click here.
This repository also welcome folks from non-tech background. You can contribute by adding a design template(landing page or web/mobile app) or by improving existing documentation/readme. Waiting for ya. 😉
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