I've finally made my first ever contribution to an open-source project. I did it because it is something I've always wanted to start doing and never done, but this month mainly for the Hacktoberfest t-shirt!
It was an issue flagged on the Strapi GitHub page. I picked it because I might be using Strapi in an upcoming project, and more importantly, it looked easy to tackle but wasn't something as trivial as a documentation fix. Best of all, the PR was accepted and merged the same day by none other than Strapi's co-founder. I've made it! Watch out, Linus! If anyone needs a single word on a single line of code changing, I'm your man.
If you're struggling to find a good first Hacktoberfest PR like I was, I'd recommend choosing a project that has good concise documentation and a guide on how you can set up your development environment to get started. Also, something you've used or know in some capacity. While searching and looking at the "Good first issue" tags I found myself being sidetracked trying to work out what the project actually did or looked like. I'd then get bored and move onto the next project.
I'm a procrastinator of epic proportions, so it felt good to actually do something! Now onto the next three issues...
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