Awesome First PR Opportunities

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).

Go

• Docker (label: exp/beginner)
  Open-source application container engine

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

PHP

• phpMyAdmin (label: newbie)
  Admin interface for MySQL written in PHP.

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.

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.

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

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

To the extent possible under law, the author has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.