Hacktoberfest is a chance to level up your coding skills and get small goodies in reward. This page lists links to awesome background information and links to awesome contribution possibilities.
- Official website for registration and tips on how to get started
- Finding issues
- Events
- Projects friendly to Hacktoberfest 1st time contributors
- Companies participating in Hacktoberfest
- Nonprofits participating in Hacktoberfest
- Misc resources
- Other awesome lists
- Contribute
- Hacktoberfest Official Website
- Hacktoberfest Tutorial - Introduction to Hacktoberfest.
- Hacktoberfest Swag List - List of all goodies given away by companies.
Finding a good issue to work on takes time. Here, you find possibilities to ease the search.
- Use Search Engine Hacktoberfest Project Finder - Offers filtering by language. The best thing is that the projects are initially sorted by GitHub stars.
- Use Search Engine Issue Finder - finds issues made especially for hacktoberfest, also allows filtering by language
- Use Search Engine Up For Grabs - find beginner-friendly projects and issues
- Search for label hacktoberfest - Label especially created for hacktoberfest.
- Search for label first-timers-only
- Search for label for-new-contributors
- Search for label good-first-issue
- Search for label easy
- https://hacktoberfest.com/events/ - List of all hacktoberfest events.
In case you are an experienced developer, projects have prepared special issues for hacktoberfest. Below you will find awesome projects that have been put notable efforts into Hacktoberfest. They also try to be very welcoming for 1st-time contributors.
(all CSS projects with hacktoberfest issues)
(all dart projects with hacktoberfest issues)
(all HTML projects with hacktoberfest issues)
(all JavaScript projects with hacktoberfest issues)
- jest-extended
- letra-extension - Passively learn a new language every time you open a new tab.
- vue-dropzone
(all Java projects with hacktoberfest issues)
(all PHP projects with hacktoberfest issues)
(all python projects with hacktoberfest issues)
- django-gamification
- howlong
- python-ds - Datastructures implemented in Python.
- quick-net
- Ralph
- Tipboard
- wtfuzz
(all React projects with hacktoberfest issues)
- Blitz - Blitz is a batteries-included framework that's inspired by Ruby on Rails, is built on Next.js, and features a "Zero-API" data layer abstraction that eliminates the need for REST/GraphQL.
- Gatsby - Gatsby is a free and open source framework for building blazing fast static websites.
- Hacktoberfest Tracker App - Check your Hacktoberfest progress. [Source].
- Hey Linda - A free forever meditation app built with React Native.
(all TypeScript projects with hacktoberfest issues)
- Accord
- Amplication
- Appsmith
- Appwrite
- Aqua Security
- Circle CI
- Coding Blocks
- Devfolio
- Gatsby
- Globol
- Grafana Labs
- Hasura
- JetBrains - JetBrains offers a wide range of developer IDEs. For Hacktoberfest, it makes them available for free for open source contributors independently of the contributor being a permanent contributor to an open source project (which is covered by their Free Licenses Program).
- MayaData
- Medusa Hackathon
- Sendgrid
- AwesomeSearch - Search engine for the awesome list providing useful programming resources.
- Build a Hacktoberfest Checker Clone
- First Timers Only - Page highlighting awesome facts on first-time contributions.
- Reading List
- Awesome Hacktoberfest 2022 - Lists awesome projects categorized for beginners and advanced coders for Hacktoberfest 2022.
- Awesome First PR Opportunities - Lists projects which are beginner-friendly.
- The Top Open Source Projects marked for Hacktoberfest - List of 29,980 projects on GitHub.
Contributions are welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first. Especially have the motto "quality over quantity" in mind. Hacktoberfest is there to level up coding skills, not the capability to submit arbitrary files to arbitrary repositories.