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Guidelines for contributing to this repo

This repo is part of the inspirezone.tech community portfolio of projects located on our GitHub page

Inspirezone is an online tech blog and community that focuses on encouraging developers of all levels of experience to improve their skills through online collaboration.

Consider joining the inspirezone community here! You don't have to join to contribute to this project. However, joining will give you a number of advantages such as:

  • Access to member exclusive channels on the inspirezone Discord server
  • Join in discussions with other members and take part in events
  • Be part of an accountability group that will encourage you to code more
  • Get notified of other projects and activities within our community
  • It's fun to improve your skills by working with others!

Please make sure you are assigned to an ISSUE before submitting a pull request

Go to the issues page and either:

  • Request to be assigned to an existing issue
  • Create your own issue and use one of the templates provided. Wait for approval and to be assigned the issue before submitting a pull request

Note: You can only be assigned to one issue at a time. Please clear your assigned issue before requesting to be assigned to another.

Contributions you can make to this project

  • Add a tutorial
  • Improve an existing tutorial
  • Report a bug or problem with the repo or a tutorial
  • Suggest a tutorial
  • Help with documentation
  • Make any suggestion for improvement

Guidelines for submitting a tutorial

  • Tutorial should explain a concept as simply as possible
  • Each tutorial should be a ".js" file and should be executable
  • Each tutorial should come with a challenge that can be verified through a print of the expected result/results to console
  • All folders and files should be named using lower cases with words separated by '-' e.g. for-loops.js
  • Please use the following template for each tutorial:
/*
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 Tutorial: brief description of tutorial content
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*/

/* Code here explaining concept with comments to guide */

/*
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 Challenge: list challenges to be completed here. minimum of one challenge per tutorial
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/

Use jshint linting to ensure format of code is consistent with repo

To test your JavaScript file before submitting use the online jshint tool.

Or install jshint:

npm install jshint

Then run a jshint check against the file:

jshint filename.js

How to submit your code to this repository - step by step guide

Please use pull requests to submit your contribution.

If you're new to opensource and contributing, for a bit of help getting started see this post on the inspirezone blog:
A beginner friendly guide to making your first open source contribution.

Steps to make your contribution using git commands

1. Fork this repo. Click on the fork icon on this repo to create a copy of it on your GitHub profile

github fork icon

2. Clone the forked repo to your PC

git clone https://github.com/your-github-username/TeachMeJavaScriptLikeIm5.git

3. Add this repo as the remote upstream. Keep it synced regularly by pulling from upstream

git remote add upstream https://github.com/inspirezonetech/TeachMeJavaScriptLikeIm5.git

git pull upstream main

4. Create a new branch and checkout to the branch

 git checkout -b your-branch

5. Get coding!

6. Commit your changes

git commit -m "commit message describing change"

7. Push to your Fork

git push origin your-branch

8. Create a Pull Request. Go to your Fork on GitHub and create a pull request to this repo on GitHub. Then fill in the PR submission form before submitting

github pr icon

9. If needed, respond to code review comments and feedback

10. If all goes well, your submission will be merged. Congrats!

License

By contributing to this repo, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its MIT License.