What can I contribute to for Hacktoberfest as a beginner? 👶🏽💻🎃

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I've been learning web dev using online resources like freeCodeCamp and Codecademy and I started studying it at college a few weeks ago. Been wanting to get involved in Hacktoberfest but I'm not sure where to start as a relative beginner. I know HTML, CSS and some basic Javascript so far. What sort of stuff should I be looking for on GitHub?

Top comments (7)

Russ Hammett • Oct 12 '18

firsttimersonly.com/ and up-for-grabs.net/#/ (i'm sure there are more) are made specifically for finding issues that the maintainers deem "easy" or "need help on". could be some place to start! you can also filter on language.

Ben Halpern • Oct 12 '18 • Edited

If you want to help dev.to out a bit, feel free to seek out some language/framework sites that could use a DEV link and add them to the relevant pages.

Similar to these PRs:

Thanks to you or anyone else who wants to do some of this! 🙏

Gokcan Degirmenci • Oct 12 '18

react-shimmer also has a beginner-friendly codebase and welcomes new PRs!

Edwin Torres • Oct 15 '18

Find an active project with recent commits. Start by contributing to documentation (e.g., fixing typos). That will help you learn the process. Then move onto updating the actual code. Even there, you'll have opportunities to easy, challenging, and difficult code changes.

Matthew Francis • Oct 13 '18

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Seven pull requests in so far, that's how I spend my Friday night💪🏼

Monica Powell • Oct 13 '18 • Edited

My project Flask Weather App is looking for contributors of all levels. Currently, this is a Flask (Python) application that auto-detects local weather based off of user’s external IP address.

We have issues that span adding emojis, more hands-on design, adding copy, setting up logic and more!

github.com/M0nica/flask_weather

I'd also recommend the links that others shared for finding issues. I'm sure your skills especially CSS could be very valuable for the right project, I'd recommend, in general, looking for issues that involve CSS and cleaning up documentation which often could use more TLC.