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[Question]: How to contribute? #280
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Do you have some extra time? Then one thing you can do is fix vecty-material. vecty-material is basically material components for vecty. With vecty-material, it's possible to use material components rather than html components (of course everything is html under the hood, but material components are higher-level).
vecty-material has worked before but stopped working with the move to wasm. I've tried to get it working again, but it was more complex than I had the time for.
In fact, I'd be willing to put in the time to get that project working if I had someone to bounce ideas off of.
I have time to get involved but I'm not a very experienced developer.
@VinceJnz see vecty-components/material#22 if you want to help. Feel free to ask questions, but no guarantees that it will be easy.
In general, it is not a good idea to just set out with a goal of "how can I contribute to an open source project X". Code is complex, you should get a solid understanding of specifically what and where you think it is important to contribute first. If you're not sure, it's a signal that you probably need more familiarity with the code before you will be able to contribute effectively. That's not a bad thing - not everyone needs to contribute to an open source project (despite what companies and recruiters might lead you to believe.)
I would encourage anyone looking to contribute to first:
- Make applications with Vecty and start understanding its tradeoffs / limitations of it
- Build an understanding of the code and look at open issues to find limitations that you can maybe improve or make suggestions on, ask questions about how things work
- Improve documentation, write articles/tutorials/etc for others
- Contribute to projects using Vecty, rather than Vecty itself - if you are eager to dive into coding first that gives you an opportunity to start learning the project and its tradeoffs/limitations.
Thanks, I've been using vecty in my own side project over the last year, but I still have a lot to understand so I don't know how useful I can be.
Is the master repository in github or gitlab?
What version of Go should I be using?
How does someone get involved in contributing to this project?