Rewind ⏪

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💡 Inspiration

After building our projects in the past hackathons and learning and implementing best git and GitHub practices we decided to work on the open-sourced projects to develop our collaboration skills and implement the knowledge that we have by contributing

👨‍💻 Contributions [What It Does && How We Built It]

  • ✅ Setup PWA for SocioMark (FEATURE)
    • SocioMark is now a Progressive WebApp for better accessibility and user experience. It allows users to install the app directly from the web to their desktops/home screens and provides the native app-like experience.
    • Issue Link: https://github.com/MLH-Fellowship/SocioMark/issues/111
    • Learnings: To implement PWA for react apps
  • ✅ Implement delete post functionality in SocioMark (FEATURE)
    • Now User can delete their own posts by clicking the red trash icon on the top right of the post
    • Issue Link: https://github.com/MLH-Fellowship/SocioMark/issues/117
    • Learnings: Implemented DELETE method for users posted media which now can be implemented to other platforms too
  • ✅ Implement High Score in Flappy Bug Game (FEATURE)
    • Implement High score functionality so that the player gets a feeling to beat the score every next time he plays. Add Score and High Score on Game Over Screen.
    • Issue Link: https://github.com/amalaabraham/flappybug/issues/44
    • Learnings: Working with Phaser.js and exploring the codebase
  • ✅ Update in Flappy Bug Documentation (DOCUMENTATION)
    • Update README of the repository with the tech stack of the project so that it becomes easy for other contributors to collaborate
    • Issue Link: https://github.com/amalaabraham/flappybug/issues/45
    • Learnings: We get to understand how important README in a repository is once we start exploring other repositories for contribution
  • ✅ Added more challenges to Party Popper Game (FEATURE)
    • Added more challenges in the Trivia section which eventually made the game more fun and amazing to play
    • Issue Link: https://github.com/LucasLobo/Party-Popper/pull/57
    • Learnings: Working with new tech stacks and retrieving data from JSON for React Component
  • ✅ Fixed a bug in Olaf’s Swim (BUG)

🙆‍♂️ Challenges we ran into

  • Most of the Repositories didn't have a good Readme as well as tags that which technology is used so it's hard to figure out unless and until we go to the whole codebase and run locally
  • Due to different time zones of fellows reviewing the PR took a long time for some PRs
  • Going through a huge codebase was a bit overwhelming first time

😎 Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Proper Github Practices
  • Contributing to repositories with tech stacks that aren't familiar to us
  • Reviewing all the PRs that came to our repository

😍 What we learned

  • Collaboration
  • Analysing the codebases
  • Importance of communicating properly with the maintainers
  • Reviewing others PRs properly

🎯 What's next for Rewind ⏪

  • Contributing to other open-source Projects and learning from them
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