First 2 Weeks Experience | Hacktoberfest 2021

I always wanted to contribute in Open Source project and Hacktober Fest gives me this chance.

I Registered my self on the very first day it was available (30th Oct) and started to find some good projects to contribute to.

First Commit

After registering, I was surfing the Hacktoberfest website and found one video in the resource section which showed me how to contribute.

So, I contributed to the repo which was less about coding but more about how to contribute on github.

I was already knowing about git and GitHub so it wasn't hard for me to get started

The project was that, every contributor have to write a Haiku (A Japanese format for poem) and then ask for a pull request

Other Contributions

After getting how open source works I started finding projects of my interest which is Web Development.

The thing which I noticed here is that, making a project from zero is more comfortable than working on someone else project and trying to fix something or add some new stuffs.

But working on someone else project is fun as it forces to learn new things because at first you can't know everything.

I also came to know that working directly on production level projects can be difficult as everyone wanted to contribute to those, so will not get any easy issues or bugs easily.

So, I tried doing some good projects which I found on Hactoberfest discord server and also found some from GitHub search.

Progress

I did my all 4PRs, and now I am finding some good project which I will do for fun.

You can suggest me some projects related to Web Development (if you can).

My Tech Stack:

• React
• Node JS
• Flask
• Firebase
• and HTML/CSS/JS (my brain screaming don't mention it DUMB!)

Contributions

Projects I have contributed by now are:

• do-community/cloud_haiku
  

  Areeb ur Rub added a Haiku #1704

  

  areeburrub posted on Oct 06, 2021

  Hey, I added a Haiku to this repo.

  View on GitHub

• vikhyatsingh123/Naruto-Shippuden
  

  added toggle button for dark-mode #371

  

  areeburrub posted on Oct 10, 2021

  Hey, it's Areeb I have added a toggle button replacing the simple static button for dark mode. and also deleted some repeating codes for NAV bar and did some other minor fixes too.

  Happy Hacktober 2021

  View on GitHub

• Rishit30G/Personal-Portfolio
  

  Changes to Navbar #20

  

  areeburrub posted on Oct 10, 2021

  I have changed the padding and added drop shadow which gives it a effect

  View on GitHub

• Alitindrawan24/2048
  

  Added Try Again and Changed UI #3

  

  areeburrub posted on Oct 11, 2021

  I have made some style changes

  Try Again Button

  I have a added a try again button, now after game over new game can be started from there only

  Added a How to Play

  Some people don't know how to use 2048 that's why added a how to play card.

  Changed Colors and Stylings

  The website was looking too dull that's why I added some colors to it. Now It looks good.

  View on GitHub

Reflections

I think Hacktoberfest is a great way to start open source journey, till now I haven't made any good connections yeah but I am looking for some good projects and people whom I can work with.