Victor Augusteo

Just recently my first PR to ReactiveCocoa has been merged and I’m still excited.

I have been using ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveSwift since the start of 2016 and enjoying it very much. The learning curve is not easy, but once you grok it, its incredible.

This brings us to contributing to open source. IMO the easiest way would be:

1. Use open source codes
2. Find functionality that you wanted but is lacking
3. Fork the repo and make a new branch with the changes along with the tests
4. Submit Pull Request with you new branch
5. Action the change requests and code styling that many repo enforces
6. Voila!

That’s what I did in the ReactiveCocoa PR. I wanted to bind attributedText of a UITextView from a MutableProperty<NSAttributedString> but the framework doesn’t support that.

textView.reactive.attributedText <~ attributedStringProperty
  .producer
  .map { 
    // whatever 
  }

Without the binding, I have to use didSet { } on the property change, which isn’t that bad, but could be better.

So my colleague suggested to submit PR with the changes that I wanted, and I did!

Further resources

There are several guides for open source newbies:

First Timers Only

Github Guide

Another Github Guide

Good luck!