My First Open Source Contribution

For the self-taught developer and (or) pretty much all developers, we use open source projects in our daily code, with or without knowing. For real though, Open Source (OS) projects have made our work easier and surprisingly fun. TL;DR My First Open Source Contribution It is always hard to find what open source projects you’d love to contribute to, especially when you are a beginner, well that’s why we mostly end up fixing the typos and eventually, making impressive contributions with time. ...

April 18, 2021 · 1 min · Chris Achinga

Syncing A forked Repo with the Parent Repo on GitHub

A short guide and a practical reference to GitHub Documentation on syncing a repo. It’s kind of an ‘open-source’ hacks For the guide, I’ll be using a repo I forked from FbDevcCommunityContent. From the terminal, I will change my directory to where the project files are: The first step will be to fetch branches and their commits from the upstream, or the parent repository: git fetch upstream After that, ensure that you are at the default repository on your remote repo. In my case, the default branch is master, and so is the upstream. ...

January 1, 2021 · 1 min · Chris Achinga

React & Bootstrap Starter Template

Live Demo I love using Bootstrap because it saves time when trying to make a site responsive. After learning to use react, I started working on using bootstrap with react. It was tough at first, and after I got a hang of it, I quickly made a template that I’d reuse every time I want to use react and bootstrap altogether. Here is brief documentation and description of the template: Usage: Start using the template in these few simple steps: ...

December 26, 2020 · 3 min · Chris Achinga