patil-ashutosh / awesome-hacktoberfest

An Awesome List of Awesome Hacktoberfest-Related Projects

Awesome Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is a chance to level up your coding skills and get small goodies in reward. This page lists links to awesome background information and links to awesome contribution possibilities.

Official website for registration and tips on how to get started

• Hacktoberfest Official Website
• Hacktoberfest Tutorial - Introduction to Hacktoberfest
• Hacktoberfest Swag List - List of all goodies given away by companies

Blogs entries

• Digitial Ocean's Blog Entry for Hacktoberfest 2019 - provides background information and explains Participating for the right reasons
• Hacktoberfest 2019 — Time to Start your Open-Source Journey! - Article on the basics of Hacktoberfest

Finding issues

Finding a good issue to work on takes time. Here, you find possibilities to ease the search.

Search engines

• Issue Finder - finds issues made especially for hacktoberfest, also allows filtering by language
• Up For Grabs - find beginner-friendly projects and issues

Using labels

With these labels, one finds issues to level up his skills in hacktoberfest.

• hacktoberfest - label especially created for hacktoberfest
• first-timers-only
• for-new-contributors
• good-first-issue

Projects friendly to Hacktoberfest 1st time contributors

You can start browsing Awesome First PR Opportunities to find projects which are beginner-friendly. To learn more about how to make contributios visit First Timers Only.

In case you are an experienced developer, projects have prepared special issues for hacktoberfest. Below you will find awesome projects that have been put notable efforts into Hacktoberfest. They also try to be very welcoming for 1st-time contributors.

Any Project

Create Pull request here on any projects you have made

CSS

(all CSS projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• shopee_design
• crystal-ann

Dart / Flutter

(all dart projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• The Public Transport

HTML

(all HTML projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• league_app

JavaScript

(all JavaScript projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• jest-extended
• vue-dropzone

Java

(all Java projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• JabRef

PHP

(all PHP projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• hacktoberfest-status

Python

(all python projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• django-gamification
• howlong
• python-ds - datastructures implemented in PYthon
• quick-net
• Ralph
• Tipboard
• wtfuzz

React

(all React projects with hacktoberfest issues)

• Hacktoberfest Checker - check your Hacktoberfest progress. [Source]

React Native

• Hacktoberfest Tracker App - Keep track of your and your friends' hacktoberfest progress. [Source]

SVG

• atom-icons

TypeScript

(all TypeScript projects with hacktoberfest issues)

Projects made for Hacktoberfest

Here you find projects that were made especially for hacktoberfest.

• hacktoberfest-status
• Issue Finder - finds issues made especially for hacktoberfest, also allows filtering by language

Companies participating in Hacktoberfest

• Accord
• Appwrite
• Aqua Security
• Circle CI
• Coding Blocks
• Devfolio
• Gatsby
• Hasura
• Sendgrid
• Source{d}

Nonprofits participating in Hacktoberfest

• If-Me
• Oppia

Misc resources

• AwesomeSearch - search engine for the awesome list providing useful programming resources.
• Build a Hacktoberfest Checker Clone
• Reading List

Contribute

Contributions are welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first. Especially have the motto "quality over quantity" in mind. Hacktoberfest is there to level up coding skills, not the capability to submit arbitrary files to arbitrary repositories.

License

To the extent possible under law, Matthew Egan has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work.