Finding the Right Open Source Projects to Contribute to

One of the biggest question marks while contributing to open source is what to contribute to?

So let's see where to find these repositories-

GitHub search/explore

Github is a great way to find other open-source projects to work on. Here you can search by-

• Topics
• Languages
• Stars
• Trending
• And many more

A great topic to search for is good first issue. You can find beginner friendly issues that are easier to contribute

Good first issues.dev

Easily find beginner-friendly issues to work on. You can find repositories of different languages easily and start working on them.

Awesome for beginners GitHub repository

This is a collection of open-source projects on GitHub that you can contribute to. They are sorted based on the language so it is easy to find what you want to work on-

Good First Issues.com

This is another website with a list of many beginner friendly projects. You can search by labels, languages, repositories

Contribute to the apps and tools you use

Give back to the free open-source tools, websites, and apps you have been using by contributing to them! Here are a few to list-

• FreeCodeCamp
• React
• Vscode
• Vue
• Next.js
• TailwindCSS

Bonus

Since this is the month of hacktoberfest, here are 2 websites to find open source projects participating in hacktoberfest-

Hacktoberfest projects

This site lets you find projects based on a preferred language and even search for projects!

**Hacktosearch

Search for projects you can contribute to by topics and languages. This is a great tool for finding more personalized projects.

I hope you found some great projects to contribute to from these resources.

What else do you use to find great projects? Let me know in the comments ;)

Useful links-

What is Open Source and how to get started?

How to contribute to an open-source project and make a PR?

All socials

Comments

[Javier]

Just what i was looking for. I tryed contributing to a project before reading this and i realise first contributions might be confusing at the begining.