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Awesome First PR Opportunities Awesome

A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.

Inspired by First Timers Only blog post and YourFirstPR project.

If you are an open source project maintainer, add the label first-timers-only (or similar) to your project and list it here so people can find it.

C

  • Neovim (label: entry-level) — Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility.

C++

  • xoreos (label: first-timers-only) — A reimplementation of BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives).

.NET

  • Shouldly (label: Jump-In) — Should testing for .net - the way Asserting Should be!

JavaScript

  • Clementine.js Boilerplate (label: beginner) — The elegant and lightweight full stack JavaScript boilerplate.
  • PouchDB (label: first time only) — PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
  • Leaflet (label: easy fix) — JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
  • angular-formly (label: first-timers-only) — JavaScript powered forms for AngularJS.
  • Dragula (label: first-timers-only) — Drag and drop so simple it hurts.
  • UI.Layout directive (Angular UI) (label: first-timers-only) — Angular directive that allows you to split!
  • React Router (label: good-for-beginner) — A complete routing solution for React.js.
  • history (label: good-for-beginner) — A minimal, functional history library for JavaScript.
  • The Reapp User Interface (label: good-for-beginner) — Amazing cross platform UI's with React and JavaScript.
  • Mozilla Shumway (label: good-for-beginner) — Shumway is a Flash VM and runtime written in JavaScript.
  • TodoMVC (label: first time contributor) — Helping you select an MV* framework by implementing Todo in lots of Javascript apps.
  • Adobe Brackets (label: starter bug) — An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
  • Chai (label: easy-fix) — BDD / TDD assertion framework for node.js and the browser that can be paired with any testing framework.
  • AVA (label: good for beginner) — Futuristic test runner.

PHP

  • phpMyAdmin (label: newbie) — Admin interface for MySQL written in PHP.

Python

  • catapult (label: Good First Bug) — Catapult home for performance tools.
  • Python Babel (label: easy) — The Python Internationalization Library.
  • mitmproxy (label: good first contribution) — An interactive SSL-capable intercepting HTTP proxy.
  • Cliquet (label: easy-pick) — A toolkit to ease the implementation of HTTP microservices, such as data-driven REST APIs.
  • Kinto (label: easy-pick) — A lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities.

Ruby

  • JRuby (label: beginner) — An implementation of Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine.
  • puppet-mcollective (label: beginner friendly) — MCollective Server and Client Puppet Module.
  • Sinatra (label: your-first-pr) — Classy web-development dressed in a DSL.

Want to create something new?

If you are interested in creating something from scratch and looking for ideas check out requests for NPM modules here: sindresorhus/module-requests

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

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