James PearceFounder at TinyBase, ex-Eng Director at Meta
Introduction
A Quick Intro To Open Source
Why Work On Open Source?
Finding A Repository
Deciding How To Participate
Learning The Codebase
Making Contributions
Conclusion
Find The Project Community
It's important to understand the bigger picture instead of focusing on every single line of code. Some questions worth asking when approaching a new codebase are:
- what is the purpose of the code
- what are the opinions of the developers
- how is the code structured?
Connect with James:
- GitHub: https://github.com/jamesgpearce
- Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/jamespearce
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