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Articles tagged with #opensource
When I rewrote my website in Astro, I decided to make it an open source project. But let's dive into what this means and how you can contribute. First of all, being open source has several meanings. This website means people can use the source code, ...
Let's say we have a file called timezone.js, and we commit this file to Git. All good and well. But then we realized the whole repo used "time zone" with a space. Apparently, there are three correct spellings of timezone: timezone, time zone, and t...
When it comes to writing commit messages, we all get blackouts. It's very hard sometimes to describe a commit message and make it meaningful. And that's where conventional commits can help you. This is a set of rules to help you describe a commit mes...
In the previous article, we looked at how you can create pull requests. We can put these in action when contributing to open source. In this article, we'll go through the following steps. Fork an open-source repo Make changes to the repo Create a PR...
There are some files you don't want to commit to Git, simply because they would be too big and don't have any use. Some examples of these files: node_modules: Super big and changes every install .env often contains secrets and keys. Make sure to ign...
Now that we have a basic introduction into what Git is and how GitHub works, let's make our first ever git repo and push it to GitHub! Yes, we'll be doing all of that today. The result is a repository on GitHub that you or someone else can use to kee...
