• Introduction to dotRead
• Demo
• Part of Hacktoberfest 2023
• Contribution Guidelines
• Local Setup
• GitHub Tutorial

It's a tool for reading github code in the brower using Monaco editor. It helps in skimming the codebase with ease and have features like multiple open files.

Here is the link for the live demo, give it a try

dotRead

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Here are some set of guidelines to follow while contributing to dotRead :

1. Welcome to this repository, if you are here as an open-source program participant/contributor.
2. Participants/contributors have to **comment** on issues they would like to work on, and mentors or the PA will assign you.
3. Issues will be assigned on a **first-come, first-serve basis.**
4. Participants/contributors can also **open their issues**, but it needs to be verified and labelled by a mentor. We respect all your contributions, whether 
it is an Issue or a Pull Request.
5. When you raise an issue, make sure you get it assigned to you before you start working on that project.
6. Each participant/contributor will be **assigned 1 issue (max)** at a time to work.
7. Don't create issues that are **already listed**.
8. Please don't pick up an issue already assigned to someone else. Work on the issues after it gets **assigned to you**.
9. Create your file in an appropriate folder with appropriate name and extension.
10. Pull requests will be merged after being **reviewed** by  maintainers5.
11. We all are here to learn. You are allowed to make mistakes. That's how you learn, right!.

• Before Contribute Please read CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

• Fork the repo to your Github.
  

• Clone the Forked Repository to your local machine.

   git clone https://github.com/<username>/dotread.
  

• Change the directory to dotRead.

   cd dotread

• Add remote to the Original Repository.

   git remote add upstream https://https://github.com/pradeeptosarkar/dotRead
  

• Check the remotes for this repository. git remote -v

• Always take a pull from the upstream repository to your master branch to keep it at par with the main project(updated repository). git pull upstream main

• Create a new branch. git checkout -b <your_branch_name>

• Perform your desired changes to the code base.

• Track your changes:heavy_check_mark: . git add .

• Commit your changes . git commit -m "Relevant message"

• Push the committed changes in your feature branch to your remote repo. git push -u origin <your_branch_name>

• To create a pull request, click on compare and pull requests. Please ensure you compare your feature branch to the desired branch of the repository you are supposed to make a PR to.

• Add appropriate title and description to your pull request explaining your changes and efforts done.

• Click on Create Pull Request.

• Voila! You have made a PR to this repo. Sit back patiently and relax while your PR is reviewed

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cd dotread
npm install
npm start

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First, you need to fork the dotRead repo. You can do this by clicking the Fork button on the top right corner of the repo. If you are new to forking, please watch this YouTube Guide to get started.

Once forked, you can clone the repo by clicking the Clone or Download button on the top right corner of the forked repo.

Please change the directory after cloning the repository using the cd <folder-name> command.

Note: Create a .env.local file and Copy all the contents of .env.example and paste into .env.local file that you created.After that update your env variable like VITE_GITHUB_TOKEN. If you don't know how to get token follow this article.

Next, install the dependencies by running the following command in the dotRead repo. we recommend using yarn but you can install using npm too

yarn install

Or

npm install

if you don't have yarn installed on your PC, follow the steps below to install it..

Windows

1. open your command prompt as administrator.
2. write corepack enable and hit enter.
3. then npm install --global yarn

Linux

1. open terminal and hit npm install --global yarn

MacOS

1. open terminal and hit npm install --global yarn or brew install yarn

Or Download Package If you are unable to install yarn following the above-mentioned process, then you can simply download the package and install it. Visit the official website of Yarn; there you can just expand the "Alternative" section and it will ask for the version to download for Windows, Linux, or Mac. https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install#windows-stable

Note: dotRead runs on React 18. However, some of the dependencies are yet to upgrade to version 18. So please use the following command when you face difficulties installing the dependencies. Also, ensure to use Node.js version >= 16.x

Use the following command to start the app in the development mode:

yarn run dev

or if you installed dependencies using npm use below command

npm run dev

It runs the app in development mode. Open http://localhost:5173 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.

You can refer to the following articles on the basics of Git and Github and also contact me, in case you are stuck:

• Forking a Repo

• Cloning a Repo

• How to create a Pull Request

• Getting started with Git and GitHub

• Learn GitHub from Scratch

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