Contributing to open source

Hey folks! I wanted to ask to anyone that managed to contribute to open source in a project for a long period of time. I've read a lot of blogposts about this but most of them talk about finding good first issues in several repos and doing simple tasks. What I'm looking for is for a project that's preferably early in its development and that I can contribute to. I currently have 1 - 2 years of experience in Typescript (mainly all the T3 stack except for tRPC) The question would be how to actually search for this types of project, and how to asses if they would be a good fit for what I'm looking for Thanks in advance ๐Ÿ™‚
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Tom
Tomโ€ข2y ago
i got involved with openzfs by adding a feature they had wanted for a long time (and that my company wanted) but as long as youre interested in the probject and willing to bring something to them also helps if they project has a history of accepting contirbutions from outside members may projects have fairly protective owners so those might not be a good fit but like idk anything about the tailwind community but they have shitty support for grid maybe add that if theyre open to it
Emilius
Emiliusโ€ข2y ago
Thanks for the answers guys ๐Ÿ™‚
Marcon
Marconโ€ข2y ago
@Emilius I am currently building https://github.com/MarconLP/loggl, which is an opensource alternative to https://logsnag.com. The main purpose is to get push notifications when specific events happen like someone purchasing a pro plan in your application. I have started building it a few days ago using create-t3-turbo, but right now I am just starting with the nextjs app. If you are interested, here is a good-first-issue: https://github.com/MarconLP/loggl/issues/3 You can also take a look at my other projects here: https://marcushof.vercel.app/
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