tio407
Looking for open source projects to contribute as a beginner
I’m a new front-end developer and feel like I’m not learning anything in my new job besides pushing around HTML/CSS using frameworks. It’s depressing. 12 months later, I now realize that I have to self-teach outside of my job in order to be a ‘real’ developer. I feel like an imposter.
I tried to get on Github to find some Elixir open source projects (e.g. Awesome Elixir) but it felt overwhelming. I don’t have the required knowledge to contribute.
Does anyone have any ideas for how to get started? Any specific projects?
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AstonJ
Have a look at this thread - it contains a list of OS projects which could do with help 
wojtekmach
Since you have background in front-end development there are at least two projects that can always use that set of skills:
- GitHub - elixir-lang/ex_doc: ExDoc produces HTML and EPUB documentation for Elixir projects · GitHub
- GitHub - hexpm/hexpm: API server and website for Hex · GitHub
Especially with hex.pm, since you know front-end you should be at home with that aspect of the project and that could be a good transition to the back-end parts. In either case, even tiny quality of life improvements to either project have big positive impact as these tools are used by pretty much everyone in the community 
There are setup instructions in respective READMEs but if run into any problems open up an issue (and/or just let me know privately) - we definitely want to make it as easy as possible for new contributors.
Kurisu
Just a suggestion like that… Why not a library to simplify Form inputs helpers that will support view styles like bootstrap, materialize_css…
There is this project but it is not really oriented to a particular view style: GitHub - beam-community/formulator: A form library for Phoenix · GitHub.
This tutorial is a good starting point: Dynamic forms with Phoenix « Plataformatec Blog
In the end we could write something like:
input :email, "your email", class: "input-class", wrapper: [class: "col-6-sm"], label: [tag: :span]
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