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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.

.NET

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

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).

Clojure

  • Alda (label: low-hanging-fruit)
    A music programming language for musicians. 🎶

ClojureScript

  • LightTable (label: beginner)
    The Next Generation code editor! One of the top funded projects on KickStarter.

Elixir

  • Elixir (label: Level:Starter)
    Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications

Go

  • Docker (label: exp/beginner)
    Open-source application container engine
  • Apex (label: contrib (easy))
    Build, Deploy, and Manage AWS Lambda functions with ease
  • Hugo (label: exp/beginner)
    A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in GoLang

Java

  • TEAMMATES (label: d.FirstTimers)
    TEAMMATES is a free online tool for managing peer evaluations and other feedback paths of your students.

JavaScript

  • annyang (label: first-timers-only)
    A popular Speech Recognition library used to communicate with everything from websites to smart mirrors to flying drones.
  • 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.
  • Kinto.js (label: easy-pick)
    An offline-first JavaScript client leveraging the Kinto API for remote data synchronization.
  • ESLint (label: beginner)
    A fully pluggable tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript.
  • Webpack (label: easy)
    A bundler for javascript and friends.
  • Tessel 2 CLI (label: contribution-starter)
    Command line interface to Tessel 2.
  • Ember.js (label: Good for New Contributors)
    A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications.
  • Ember.js Data (label: Good for New Contributors)
    A data persistence library for Ember.js.
  • FreeCodeCamp (label: first-timers-only)
    Open source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code and help nonprofits.
  • Ghost (label: beginner)
    Just a blogging platform
  • eslint-plugin-unicorn (label: good for beginner)
    Awesome ESLint rules.
  • Hyper (label: Good for beginners)
    JS/HTML/CSS Terminal
  • pdf.js (label: 5-good-beginner-bug)
    PDF Reader in JavaScript
  • Moment.js (label: Up-For-Grabs)
    A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
  • serverless (label: help-wanted-easy)
    The Serverless Framework
  • Hoodie Camp (label: first-timers-only)
    Hoodie Camp is a space for new and existing contributors.
  • React server (label: good-first-contribution)
    React framework with server render for blazing fast page load and seamless transitions between pages in the browser.
  • Yarn (label: good first bug)
    Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management.
  • pixi.js (label: Difficulty: Easy)
    A 2D JavaScript Renderer
  • Next.js (label: Good for beginners)
    A minimalistic framework for universal server-rendered React applications
  • keystonejs (label: good first task)
    The open source framework for developing database-driven websites, applications and APIs in Node.js. Built on Express and MongoDB.
  • Semantic-UI-React (label: good first contribution)
    The official React integration for Semantic UI.

Julia

PHP

  • phpMyAdmin (label: newbie)
    Admin interface for MySQL written in PHP.
  • Deployer (label: good for beginner)
    A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box.

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.
  • Pinax (label: first-timers-only)
    A Django-based platform for rapidly developing websites.
  • BorgBackup (label: easy)
    Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption.
  • pylearn2 (label: For beginners)
    A Machine Learning library based on Theano.
  • scrapy (label: easy)
    A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

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.
  • Goby (label: beginner)
    Framework for developing text-RPGs.
  • Hanami (label: easy)
    A modern framework for Ruby.

Rust

  • Servo (label: E-easy)
    A browser engine designed for applications including embedded use.
  • Rust-Clippy (label: E-easy)
    A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve Rust code
  • Rustfmt (label: easy)
    A tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines.
  • Iron (label: easy)
    An extensible, concurrent web framework for Rust

Scala

  • Twitter Util (label: Starter)
    Wonderful reusable code from Twitter
  • playframework (label: newbie) The High Velocity Web Framework

TypeScript

  • TypeScript (label: Effort: Easy) TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
  • Visual Studio Code (label: beginner) a new type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle.

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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