Anyone contributing to Lemmy's code development (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rayb@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Curious if anyone is working on the codebase for Lemmy. I'm sure we all see a few places where it could use some love.

The main repos are:

Personally, I've been working on a few small things for docs.

PS: Here's a pretty easy ticket to jump on if you want to get started :) https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1214

There is also a dev chat in their Matrix space: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org

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[-] enki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll try to contribute to the backend! I’ve always found it daunting, because often the issues are taken up.

[-] rayb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Are you a rust dev? The backend is all rust and I think there are many pretty easy open issues to checkout.

One thing (not sure if there is an issue right now) that is a problem on the backend is that it doesn't send a response if you put the wrong username+password so the frontend just stays loading forever. However, maybe this will be fixed automatically when they stop using websocks (soon)

[-] enki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I've mostly done low level work with it at school but I've been wanting to learn web dev with it :) Might pick up one of the easy issues!

[-] rayb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This might be a easy first issue to try: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/707

Probably not really coding but would get you familiar with how the system works :)

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