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Celebrate Open Source with Hacktoberfest

Open source is changing the world – one contribution at a time.

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean. Hacktoberfest is open to everyone, from first-time contributors to seasoned open source developers. Your open source journey begins with a pull request. Hoppscotch is one of the projects that you can contribute to.

About Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch is an open source API development ecosystem. You can test, save, share, collaborate, document APIs in real-time, and many more.

  • Used by 500,000+ developers
  • 31,000+ GitHub stars
  • 21,000+ monthly users

GitHub → Web app →

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👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

Contribute

Anyone around the globe who desires to help drive the growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to participate. Learn How to Contribute?

There are different ways you can contribute to Hoppscotch. We've curated a list of beginner-friendly ways for you to check out.

👩‍💻 👨‍💻    Implement features

We have a curated list of Hacktoberfest issues requested by community members that are ready for you to pick up.

Active issues ➔

🧪 🧪    Bug fixes

If you'd like to break and build software, fix an existing issue reported by the community and be a hero!

Active issues ➔

👩‍🔧 👨‍🔧    Write tests

If you're into maintaining the quality and stability of the software, contribute to our testing suites written in jest.

Web app ➔
Repository ➔

✍️ ✍️    Write documentation

Contributes to Hoppscotch Documentation. See if you can find anything missing or that can be improved.

Web app ➔
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💖 💖    Write a blog post

Used Hoppscotch in a recent project? Built something cool with Hoppscotch? Tell the community about it in an awesome blog post. Publish your article in developer forums like dev.to, hashnode, aviyel etc.

Web app ➔
Repository ➔

✨ ✨    Make a tutorial

Have you been a user of the project for a while? From video tutorials to written tutorials, help new community members get started with Hoppscotch!

This will help people who are using the project and you can also share your own insights and tips while writing these. Publish your content on platforms like youtube, dev.to, hashnode, aviyel etc.

FUN FACT: Most developers prefer a well-written and up-to-date blog post over reading documentation most of the time.

Web app ➔
Repository ➔

🌍 🌎    Translate the software

Enjoy the application in your favorite language - help us to translate Hoppscotch. There might be users from different parts of the world who are more comfortable in a different language.

Please read TRANSLATIONS for details and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

This will open up the project to a whole new user base.

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Repository ➔


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