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Any contribution to Open Source is valuable

Nick Taylor on January 22, 2019

We hear people say it all the time, but I would like to reiterate it. Any contribution you make to open source is a valuable contribution. Sure we ...
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dAVE Inden

Great post. I'm sure you saved multiple people from falling to the same trouble you went through. I totally agree with this that any contribution to an open source project is a valuable one. I started my own open source project recently and I got a pull request the first day to fix the copyright year in the footer of my site. It was a simple, but very helpful fix. I really appreciated that someone took the time to fix it. I would be willing to be that these kind of issues are seen by lots of people and they think that someone else will fix it since it is so easy to do.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

That's great you started Dancing Vikings, dancing-vikings.github.io. Best of luck with the projects!

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dAVE Inden

Thank you!

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Grzegorz Ziemonski

Whoa. I haven't looked into Gatsby yet since I'm not running a site any more, so I didn't realize it's that "cool". Kinda reminds me of:

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Nick Taylor

To each their own. I appreciate the feedback, but that wasn't the point of the post 😉

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Abhinav Kumar

Does your backup tool allow you to exclude node_modules from backups?

I wish there was a way to have .backupignore files.

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Nathan Sebhastian

Hi Nick, can you enlighten me on the benefits of using Typescript on React? If it's about type, don't we have propTypes for that? Thanks

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Proptypes are fine if you're just validating the shape of props that JSX consumes, but proptypes won't be able to check the types of the rest of your codebase. That's where TypeScript, Flow or a language like Reason come into play.

Also, with TypeScript, the refactor story is much better, there's intellisense etc.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

In fact, if you use VS Code or even Code Sandbox for your JavaScript based projects, all the refactoring capabilities under the hood are thanks to the TypeScript language service, since JavaScript is valid TypeScript.

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Nathan Sebhastian

Oh I see.. been considering TypeScript for a long time, but haven't learned it because I don't know what tangible benefit it offers. I think I will look into your source code for better understanding. I'm looking forward to your TS post 😁

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Nick Taylor

In the meantime, check out this post. There's some great TypeScript resources in there.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

I also wrote this article for newer devs getting into open source. Contributing to documentation is always appreciated and it's a great way to start contributing. If you're looking for some help in getting started in open source, look no further than @jess ' post.

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Octa

Thanks, I needed to read this today!

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Rémi Lavedrine

That is a very good story.
My first Open source contribution was on the OWASP Top 10 and I had a lot of fun addind things to that project and contributing to the community.