badge-generator VS explore

I use a workflow similar to the one above that is implemented in my Badge Generator web app, which is built in Vue and Yarn.

Looking through my classmates' contributions for Hacktoberfest, I found badge-generator - a cool tool that helps us create markdown badges for our documentations. The owner wants to implement the dark mode for the site, and since the tool is written with VueJS, I decided to challenge myself as I could also continue to learn this framework.

Eventually, I remembered one of the repos that I've used before to contribute to one of the Hacktoberfest issues, I thought that it would be nice to give back (hint hint😉😉😉 something to think about when looking for an issue... hint😉) to that repo. I quickly gave up everything I was doing and went to check it out to see if it is even active and if it has any open issues I could work on. To my surprise, no one except the author has ever contributed to that before, so I am now officially one of the first contributors there.😋

After browsing for a while, I found MichaelCurrin's project, badge-generator. The project is a simple interface for simplifying the creation of badges, used in several open source projects to show things like the version number of the project, whether the project is currently building, etc. A badge usually looks like this:

I learned was that even if an issue seems small and something that you can handle, it doesn't mean you will not learn a lot out of it. During the process, I learned about a handy open source repo that helps to generate badges to make README files look prettier. And a cool tool that has all the emojis you need for your frontend.

badge-generator

GitHub: Many researchers and organizations share datasets on GitHub repositories. You can search for repositories with datasets using specific keywords. GitHub

There isn't a lot going on there, but I like the way he added the little language and tech-stack icons to his GitHub profile using the images served by the GitHub Explore page as well.

Checking the GitHub explore page for fun projects and inspiration

Uh? How is this AI thingie different from Github Explore?

https://github.com/explore

What is the real URL for Github Feed?

The Before I Die Code project’s front end is built with React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and it’s currently deployed on Vercel. However, the technology will change with the deployment as I am planning on applying for this open-source project to be featured on the GitHub explore page. For this, the project will need to be using GitHub pages.

New users finding a project is much more likely on GitHub. I'm not necessarily talking about search. I would expect that experience to be about the same on both, though generally, I see a lot more empty projects showing up in results on GitLab for some reason, at least for things I've searched for there. Github seems to do reasonably well with search ranking. I'm more concerned about the poor experience with https://gitlab.com/explore compared to https://github.com/explore where people are going to be discovering new libraries when they don't know what they are looking for and are either browsing topically or just browsing for fun and learning. GitLab seems to do particularly poorly in their curation and selection of what they show you. GitHub on the other hand, has connected me with countless extremely high quality projects through this feature. Finally, the discoverability advantage of GitHub over gitlab is also simply because more people use GitHub. You don't need to primarily use GitHub to use it to point to GitLab If you want to work there, but you're certainly going to have more users finding your project if you have presence on GitHub.

You can also star projects you find interesting and github will use that for the EXPLORE tab to show you other cool projects.

Subscribe to atom/rss feed of https://github.com/explore (you prolly want to have a gihub account) or https://github.com/trending and be sure to at least 'follow' any projects that may interest you. No need to install everything.

Otherwise search for "good first issue" or similar, there are some sites that curate them. Or see GitHub Explore