The project that worked on this time for the second pull request was called TeacherFund. The goal of the project was to create a patreon type website for great teachers that go above and beyond to buy supplies that aren’t funded by the school, but through their own wallets.
This is a link to their github:
https://github.com/teacherfund/TeacherFund_next/pull/34
The project is still relatively new so it was somewhat friendly for newcomers trying to get into open source. In order to understand the structure of the project, I needed some React knowledge.
The interesting part of this experience was that I was taking a look at the existing issues and noticed the “first-good-bug” tag. So I decided to build the project and take a look at what was happening. I analyzed the website and then came across this switcher button.
My initial reaction was this:
The text was white and camouflaged itself in the white background! So I went straight to github and filed an issue, but at the same time making a pull request for my change to hard code the text to black.
The next day I received two replies from the maintainers of the project asking to create a prop field so that users could just send the color from the parent component. Now, to be honest, I suck at doing CSS as it’s one my weakness and trouble reading for the most part. But, with quick researching, I made the changes he requested and pushed up my changes once again to have it approved.
What did I learn about this experience? Learning the difference between state and props, but most importantly, don’t be afraid to put up an issue.
See you in the next blog.
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