Good First Issues

This is a list of JavaScript repositories with good first issues for newcomers to open source. Contributions are welcome!

This list gets updated every day at midnight.

brave/brave-browser

• Allow brave-browser.desktop to open URLs in Incognito mode
• Incorrect icon for Bookmarks in side panel
• Opening a new tab redirects to an internal url first at "internal://local/about/home?uuidkey=..." before going to the actual web page
• Huge unnecessarily long scrollbar on brave://settings/content/all
• Purple background behind search and keyboard elements
• Separate Site and Shield Settings from History in Clear Private Data
• Improve UX for setting NTP to a url
• Closing a tab from the Tabs Bar will occasionally fail

meshery/meshery.io

• [Feature] Creating a dedicated Newcomer's Guide
• Website: Consolidate duplicative and unused CSS
• [DevOps] Populate Meshery Catalog with Sample Apps using meshery UI

meshery/meshery

• [UI] Migrate Playwright extensions spec to use Playwright Page Object Model
• [Docs] Add Meshery’s Bluesky account to appropriate places in Docs
• [UI] Help Icon Hover Background Circle Fix in Sidebar.
• [Models][UX]: Design Icon for ArgoCD Component - Cluster Workflow Template
• [Models][UX]: Design Icon for ArgoCD Component - App Project
• [Template] Create a Mind Map template
• [Template] Create a AWS architecture template
• [mesheryctl] increase unit/integration test coverage on model subcommands
• [UI] Migrate Playwright models spec to use Playwright Page Object Model
• [Template] Create an Information Architecture: Sitemap template
• [mesheryctl] Create Unit and Integration Tests for mesheryctl exp environment create Command

HeyPuter/puter

• Feature Request: Add keyboard shortcuts guide in the UI
• Complete the German (Deutsch) translation of Puter
• [Feature Request] Dinamic Wallpaper

google/site-kit-wp

• Remove privacySandboxModule feature flag
• Replace usage of Lodash cloneDeep with native structuredClone.

AlaSQL/alasql

• primary key not working. Adds duplicate values.
• ESCAPE character issue
• Promise.all error
• fix RECORDSET returning empty columns if there's no matched rows issu…

badges/shields

• WinGet Service: add ReleaseDate

layer5io/layer5

• [UI] Community Handbook Faq page need to be enhanced
• [News] KubeCon 2025: CNCF to Standardize AI Workloads
• [News] add new article - “CNCF honours cloud native pioneers at 2025 community awards”
• [SEO] First Contentful Paint (FCP): gatsby-plugin-webpack-bundle-analyser-v2
• [Screenshots] Fabedge under 'How it Works See It in Action' section
• [Screenshots] Devstream under 'How it Works See It in Action' section
• [Screenshots] Flagger under 'How it Works See It in Action' section
• [Screenshots] Old Screenshots of Meshery Playground needs to be updated
• [Screenshots] AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service under 'How it Works See It in Action' section

nodejs/node

• TextDecoder incorrectly decodes 0x92 and several other characters for Windows-1252
• Recommend node/default conditions instead of require/import as a solution to the dual package hazard
• Some CLI options documented in the CLI docs are missing in node manpage
• Document differences between Node.js fetch() implementations and the standard
• test-runner: write out timestamp as first line in watch mode
• TextDecoder does not error incorrectly for legacy byte sequences
• Improve the ERR_AMBIGUOUS_MODULE_SYNTAX error message
• Error [ERR_INTERNAL_ASSERTION]: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_THIS]: Value of "this" must be of type EventTarget
• Inconsistent validation of custom signals
• process.cwd() fails in a not usefully descriptive way
• tools: lint TypeScript files

processing/p5.js

• new getCamera function for V1 & V2
• [p5.js 2.0 Bug Report]: if use min() and max() with Infinity or -Infinity, it throws friendly error
• [2.x] Fix dimensional quirk in the heading() method of p5.Vector
• Visual loading indicator fallback while assets are loading
• WEBGL background image bug
• [p5.js 2.0 Beta Bug Report]: Document difference between textWidth and fontWidth with respect to whitespace
• [p5.js 2.0 Bug Report]: p5 reference error for p5.MediaElement
• [p5.js 2.0 Bug Report]: Improve splineProperties() reference: missing examples and description
• [2.0] Add array, vector overloads to createVector() for consistency
• [2.0] Deprecate array() method of p5.Vector

vercel/next.js

• Slow page reload running in development
• Inconsistent Error Messaging / Handling in getStaticPaths

jacob-macleod/Dolphin-Flashcard-App

• CRITICAL: Flashcard Sets Can’t Be Created

jaegertracing/jaeger-ui

• [Bug]: UI Shows Infinite Loading for Non-Existent Trace ID

eyaltoledano/claude-task-master

• feat: search/find in tasks - title, description, details, test-strategy, sub-tasks.
• Status emoji alignment issues in boxen titles
• Bug: Warning emoji in boxen titles causes alignment issues

treeverse/dvc.org

• Update references to master branch with main

CycloneDX/cdxgen

• [ci] setup-swift is too flaky

gbowne1/RadioLogger

• Fix the 404 route so it loads the 404 page when it hits a 404 instead of a message from server

mr-baraiya/VMusic

• Setup Prettier Formatting
• Add Project Banner to README
• Improve README formatting

CircuitVerse/CircuitVerse

• 🐞 Bug Spacing issue between the CAPTCHA and the login button.
• 🐞 Bug Ui Alignment under the Assignment section
• UI Improvement of Edit Details Page
• Improved Design For Footer
• Footer abnormal movement in notification
• migrate delete button to view component
• Text is not completely highlighted on hover
• revamp: search input in dashboard
• The Welcome Email has broken UI elements
• Missing translation for "Member since" for arabic language on User dashboard
• 🐞 Bug: MacOS repository native setup error
• Docker node source deprecation
• feat: clear all button for notifications

miroslavpejic85/mirotalk

• [Containers] Configure "secrets" via *_FILE environment variables with reading secret values from said files
• Enhancing Chat UI Inspired by MiroTalk SFU

Circuit-Overtime/elixpo_chapter

• [FING]: Redesign and Improve Authentication Pages (Login & Signup) for Better UI/UX

GoldFoylee/clubs-project

• Login / Signup UI Integration
• Frontend Setup – React + Routing

helm/helm-www

• Quickstart Guide References Bitnami Charts, is this affected by "Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025)"
• [docs] address missing topics in docs
• Helm Template Comments formatting inconsistent/wrong
• Add trick for accessing chart names inside Values with dashes to Best Practices documentation

stdlib-js/stdlib

• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• [RFC]: use string interpolation in JavaScript benchmarks for the benchmark name (tracking issue)
• [RFC]: replace static memory allocation of large arrays in C benchmarks with dynamic memory allocation (tracking issue)
• [RFC]: Improve doctests for complex number instances in documentation examples (tracking issue)
• [RFC]: Improve doctests for complex number typed arrays in documentation examples (tracking issue)
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• [RFC]: add symbol/split
• [RFC]: add symbol/to-string-tag
• [RFC]: add symbol/search
• [RFC]: add stats/incr/nanmminabs
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• [RFC]: Add C implementation for @stdlib/stats/base/dists/studentized-range/quantile
• [RFC]: add symbol/match
• [RFC]: add stats/incr/nanmmeanvar
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• Fix JavaScript lint errors

holistics/dbml

• Computed Columns
• Define "Included" columns on index for SQL Server
• Feature request - Descending Fields in Indexing
• Clickhouse Binding
• Add support for views
• Define column collation in markup [SQL Server]
• Alias for enums

gramps-project/gramps-web

• Add a functionality to automatically search with CompGen meta search
• Source: allow editing author and repository reference

hackforla/website

• Update Github handle for Santiago Vidal: Website
• Update Project Profile: HackforLA Website
• Update Project Profile: Civic Tech Jobs - Add Jason Shi
• Updated Links Variable for Github
• Update Project Profile: HackforLA Website Add Ryan Keller
• Update Community of Practice: UI/UX Remove Julia Gab
• Update Project Profile: Hackforla.org Website Add Xavier Neal-Carson
• Update Project Profile: Hackforla.org Website Add Darshin Van Parijs
• Update Project Profile: Hackforla.org Website Add Phalguni Kambhalur
• Update Project Profile: Hackforla.org Website Remove Samhitha Kamma
• Update Project Profile: Website Remove Mugdh Chauhan
• Update Project Profile: Civic Tech Jobs (Add Tech: MKDocs)
• Update Project Profile: Civic Tech Jobs (Add Tech: AWS)
• Update Project Profile: Civic Tech Jobs (Add Tech: Vite)
• Update Project Profile: HackforLA Website Add Donovan Vernon
• Update Project Profile: Civic Tech Jobs Remove Terence Lo
• Replace Github with GitHub in _guide-pages/2FA.html
• Review Needed - New Wins Form Submission
• Review Needed - New Wins Form Submission

StaffAnchor/StaffAnchor-ATS-V1

• Include the search symbol within the placeholder
• "LPA" text addition in the "CTC" section of Jobs

WordPress/gutenberg

• Show Heading level in the sidebar
• DataForm: Focus loss when collapsing in Card view
• Post Title: Consider Adding Balanced Line Wrapping Solution
• Paragraph: Add CSS columns
• Multi-column Post Excerpt
• Column block: Dropping block into an empty column using a drop zone.
• Insert image using url for cover
• Cover Block: Allow Video backgrounds to be 'Fixed'
• Global blockGap property is not overridable in style variations
• Custom font upload not working
• Meta boxes: update core styles to match Gutenberg's
• Navigation Block + Page Link Block: Create draft option shows when adding an existing page
• Workflows: Replace unmaintained actions
• Add Random to Order by options in Query Loop Block

sfwnisme/backend-real-estate

• clean error messages
• Refactoring and creating new logic (up to date)

fastify/fastify

• invalid: improve server.md TOC
• Check invalid links
• Suggestion for Fastify 5: Required param to .send
• docs: Codemods for Upgrading to fastify v5

lokus-ai/lokus

• [Technical Debt] Add Comprehensive Test Coverage (Target: 80%)
• [Feature] Callouts/Admonitions - Phase 1: Basic Implementation
• [Bug]: Re-enable E2E tests in CI
• [Feature]: Improve dev container setup
• [Feature]: Create test data generators

weedlesniper/ocrroo-advp-project

• About page
• UV sync fails on Windows when Python 3.11 is used (Numpy build error)

guardon-dev/guardon

• Feature: Add Validation Status Icons in Popup
• Feature: Add Search/Filter for Rules Table
• Feature: Add Rule Counter in Options Page
• Feature: Add More Default Security Rules
• Feature: Add ESLint and Prettier Setup