Hacktoberfest 2020 - Love for Open-Source

Varun Malhotra — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:27:40 +0000

Note: This blog respects the Hacktoberfest 2020 blog template.

Love for open-source 💖

Being a developer, I love open-sourcing. I have contributed to a few projects and keep open-sourcing my side-projects as well. This provides me constant feedback and motivation to learn and contribute more. Explore my GitHub profile@softvar

Background ⏮

I have been into open-sourcing for around 8 years. I still remember my first open-source repo and how much I was excited then to learn git and successfully pushing it to GitHub.
The open-source community has evolved over the years and I have learned a lot from other open-source projects.

I have been participating in Hacktobeefest for the past 3 years. I'm always excited to be a part of it. To be honest, this time I didn't find much time to really contribute to good projects and learn something new. My usual work made me qualified for the 2020 reward. I'm glad to participate and have always motivated my peers too, especially those who are new or yet to explore this realm.

Progress 🙌

I was lucky enough to be able to make it this time too. I contributed and all my Pull Requests were successfully approved and merged into respective repositories.

Contributions 🎉

Below is the list of the work I completed in the month of October 2020:

sorrycc/awesome-javascript - I submitted one of my repo(awesome-web-storage) to be listed in the storage section. Apparently, this didn't count towards the competition.
gauravmuk/tippy-demo - The project lacked a README file to help understand and run the project. This is some work-related demo project.
gauravmuk/tippy-demo - Added MIT LICENSE as defined in the package.json file. It helps the viewer to use the repo's code wisely.
gauravmuk/tippy-demo package.json file points to the wrong file in the "main" key.
gauravmuk/google-search-result-scrape - The project helped me carry out a POC for a bigger project I'm still working on. So, to run it initially, I tweaked some of the code for better validation support and added a README file.

Reflections 🤩

I'm very happy to contribute to open-source this year as well. I learned that a lot of people open-source a lot of awesome stuff they build but there are a lot of good practices missing and a scope of further improvements. I will keep learning myself and continue contributing through my side-projects. I really wish to contribute to some good projects I always use and admire.