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.

WordPress/gutenberg

• Original PRs may not be tagged properly when a manual cherry-pick is performed.
• Insert image using url for cover
• Add linting rule to fail build if package A incorrectly depends on package B
• Restore the full search visibility in embed links
• Pasting direct image URL inserts Embed block instead of Image block
• The category set in Default Post Category is not selected in the display when posting a new post.
• Make tooltips dismissable
• Cover block: empty block shows as black box on frontend
• Dependency Extraction Webpack Plugin: Prettify the output of the development asset files
• Custom font upload not working
• Twitter embed block should expose options for how the tweet is displayed
• Improve the manual git cherry-pick instructions left when performing an automatic cherry-pick fails

gODtECH-Ctl-Create/RepoOps

• Add a fixture generator for GitHub event payloads
• Add human-friendly .repoops.yml diagnostics
• Track pull request review age and response latency

Techtonica/curriculum

• Update documentation for outdated topic outlines
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for NP Completeness
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Strongly Connected Components
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Heavy & Light Decomposition
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Edmonds-Karp Algorithm
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Floyd-Warshall Algorithm
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Bellman-Ford Algorithm
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Bitmasking or Subset DP
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Disjoint Set Union or Union-Find
• Create topic outline with interactive walkthrough and visuals for Maximum number of non-overlapping intervals on an axis

Hylozoic/hylo

• New SPARKLE for Tracks button
• Add user rsvp calendar sub link to Calendar ViewMode
• Off-page overflow in message thread
• Auto-add zoom/video links to the meetingLink field if its in the description
• translation script sort reverses case
• Layout: highlighted comment missing top margin/padding

stdlib-js/stdlib

• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• [RFC]: Migrate math/base/special packages from relative tolerance testing to ULP difference testing (tracking issue)
• Fix JavaScript lint errors
• [RFC]: Add C implementation for @stdlib/stats/base/dists/beta/median
• [RFC]: Add C implementation for @stdlib/stats/base/dists/chisquare/pdf

vicharanashala/tenali

• Fold Guess the Number into its parent topic (bases - it is a binary trick)
• Fold Comic Addition into Addition
• Docs overstate BKT: spacingLadder is not BKT-driven, and server/lib/bkt.js is not a shared utility
• Wire BKT into lil/masteryEngine so mastery is actually computed and persisted
• Use the canonical gym names
• Fix eslint errors in the 49 remaining low-count client files
• Confirm the API contract test still passes after the removal
• Drop the three stale vite proxy entries on main
• Fold Idli Vada Sambhar and The Car Journey into their parent topics
• Fix the contradictory puzzle counts in the README

nextcloud/mail

• Change Message-ID format

meshery/meshery.io

• [DevOps] Populate Meshery Catalog with Sample Apps using meshery UI
• Website: Consolidate duplicative and unused CSS
• Touch interactions provide no visual feedback on Catalog cards in mobile view
• [Bug] Fix Meshery Docs Link Styling
• [Bug] Copy Button Flickering on Hover

Mayor-s-Office-of-Innovation/good-neighbor-app

• Use lower res imagery for card thumbnails
• As a PFS user, I can see a lightbox version of any photo in the app
• "Add place" textfield is too small (during setup)

guillaumevele/agent-proof-kit

• docs: PowerShell version of the ByteFence quickstart
• codex-exec-jsonl: record todo_list progress as evidence (counts only)
• Missing --input / --policy files surface a raw ENOENT with an absolute path

vercel/next.js

• Parameter on AppType is used incorrectly
• @next/next/no-html-link-for-pages rule does not work with pageExtensions
• Redux-observable server side fetching
• getInitialProps is not running when Router.replace's "href" and "as" contains hash and query params inside "href" change.
• Scrolling happens when user returns to a page with hash using browser back button
• Dynamic Routes in Symlinks is not working
• Misleading "next-head-count is missing" error for invalid head tags
• POST request succeeds for pages with next dev
• Inconsistent Error Messaging / Handling in getStaticPaths

nextcloud/forms

• Replace description fields with NcRichText

Jason-Vaughan/TangleClaw

• Add JSDoc to the 9 undocumented private helpers
• [chore] Nothing asserts the README's two clone pins match version.json — they go stale on every release, by hand
• ui/integration: six v2 palette pairs fall below the 4.5:1 contrast floor
• [feature] Set CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_AUTO_OPEN=0 for spawned Claude sessions — artifact tabs pile up on a host nobody watches
• tests: stop regex-matching exact public/* source text in frontend tests
• Tighten FEATURES.md citation-contract coverage
• [chore] Log when resolveSessionRange downgrades a session SHA to the trunk range
• wrap: changelog promotion emits headings with no link-reference defs
• projects: stranded-config guard misses .gemini artifacts
• Suppress node:sqlite ExperimentalWarning via --disable-warning flag

CesiumGS/cesium

• GeoJsonDataSource sourceUri parameter isn't used
• Model animations are calculated for unavailable entities, impacting FPS
• Irrelevant error message from PerInstanceColorAppearance

modusensus/dsh-mneme

• [Feature] 面板：provider/model 改动缺「重启后生效」提示，且不校验二者是否配套
• [Feature] 面板标注「极简模式下注入按宿主设计关闭」
• [Feature Request] scope 标注缺人工入口与提升回路：自动载体标签不该直接吃硬过滤效力

career-ops-hq/career-ops

• i18n: translate the interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) to Spanish
• i18n(fr): bring the French interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) back to parity with the English ones
• i18n: translate the interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) to Portuguese (Brazil)
• i18n(pl): re-sync modes/pl/oferta.md (Polish) to the canonical A–H + Risk Summary structure
• feat(cli): four documented scripts have no --help — add the usage block (one script per PR)
• i18n: add the interview README to de/id/ru/ua/zh (one language per PR)
• feat(scan): domain-level aggregator repost list, complementing the SimHash cross-listing warning
• set-status.mjs: the JSON result must be the last thing on stdout, and nothing pins it
• i18n: translate the interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) to German
• Native-speaker check wanted: the human-in-the-loop row in 11 languages (a940028a)
• fix(analyze-patterns): --min-threshold and --min-vendor-n values are never validated
• update-system.mjs commits the auto-update onto whatever branch you are on, including a contributor's feature branch
• Umbrella: bring the Hired Wall section to the 16 localized READMEs
• i18n(ua): re-sync modes/ua/oferta.md (Ukrainian) to the canonical A–H + Risk Summary structure
• docs(i18n): the 16 translated READMEs still describe the report as A-F; it is A-H
• verify-cv-facts: flag scope-verb inflation and unsourced adoption claims, not just numbers
• i18n(pt): re-sync modes/pt/oferta.md (Portuguese) to the canonical A–H + Risk Summary structure
• i18n(es): re-sync modes/es/oferta.md (Spanish) to the canonical A–H + Risk Summary structure
• i18n(da): re-sync modes/da/oferta.md (Danish) to the canonical A–H + Risk Summary structure
• i18n: translate the interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) to Indonesian
• docs(i18n): translate the new README FAQ into the remaining 13 languages
• i18n: translate the interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) to Polish
• i18n: translate the interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) to Korean
• i18n: translate the interview modes (plan/practice/debrief) to Japanese

open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io

• [es] Spanish folder localization docs/Platforms
• [pt] Localize content/en/docs/collector pages
• [es] Spanish folder localization zero-code
• [pt] Localize content/en/docs/platforms pages
• [Docs] homepage feature image is misleading

louislam/uptime-kuma

• Password Reset via CLI does not work on Embedded MariaDB

jellyfin/jellyfin-web

• The homepage only displays the backdrops from libraries of the "movie" type

processing/p5.js

• A false positive FES error on function "loadModel"
• [p5.js 2.0 Bug Report]: Warnings about omitting strokes on high-detail 3D primitives don't use FES
• Update describe function limits and best practices

saayam-for-all/webapp

• Request Details - AI Chat Pop Up Box

rpuls/my-own-suite

• [Platform] Install MOS somewhere untested and report what happened
• [App] Add Memos app package
• [App] Add Excalidraw app package

TheFleece/dota2-mod-manager

• Linux: check that preset links and .d2mm files open the app
• Mask the account name in the diagnostic report

layer5io/layer5

• [Screenshots] Cilium under 'How it Works See It in Action' section
• [CI] Create or add to existing workflow: a broken link checker
• [UI]: Oversized GitHub octocat icon on "What is GitOps?" resource page
• [Community] Member Profile: Omolade Akinwumi
• add animated card
• [UI]: Unwanted border and incorrect Layer5 logo color in “Join the Conversation” box

Berserk-hub150/skillhawk

• [Good First Issue] Add a SKILL.md trust-boundary tip [MC-012]
• [Good First Issue] Add a redaction tip [MC-009]
• [Good First Issue] Add a suspicious-fixture writing tip [MC-008]
• [Good First Issue] Add a safe-fixture writing tip [MC-007]
• [Good First Issue] Add a severity calibration tip [MC-006]
• [Good First Issue] Add a narrow-rule design tip [MC-005]
• [Good First Issue] Add a false-positive review tip [MC-004]
• [Good First Issue] Add an actionable-remediation tip [MC-003]
• [Good First Issue] Add a minimal-evidence tip [MC-002]
• [Good First Issue] Add a SARIF-result tip [MC-015]
• [Good First Issue] Add a regression-test tip [MC-014]
• [Good First Issue] Add an educational-warning tip [MC-016]
• [2–5 min] Define static analysis for beginners
• [2–5 min] Define prompt injection for beginners
• [2–5 min] Add one prompt-injection remediation tip
• [2–5 min] Add one precision flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one safe-fixture writing tip
• [2–5 min] Add one severity-labeling tip
• [2–5 min] Add one MCP config review use case
• [2–5 min] Add one false-negative reporting tip
• [2–5 min] Add one false-positive reporting tip
• [2–5 min] Add one benchmark FAQ answer
• [2–5 min] Add one local repository scan use case
• [2–5 min] Add one pull-request scanning use case
• [2–5 min] Add one Claude Code review use case
• [2–5 min] Add one Agent Skill review use case
• [2–5 min] Add one recall flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one static-vs-dynamic analysis flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one secrets-handling flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one static-only safety flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one rule ID flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one CI security gate flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one Code Scanning flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one GitHub Action flashcard
• [2–5 min] Add one flashcard about zero dependencies
• [2–5 min] Define least privilege for beginners
• [2–5 min] Define remediation for beginners
• [2–5 min] Define security severity levels
• [2–5 min] Define recall for beginners
• [2–5 min] Define precision for beginners
• [2–5 min] Define false negative for beginners
• [2–5 min] Define false positive for beginners
• [2–5 min] Define SARIF for beginners
• Add detection for suspicious PowerShell download-and-execute patterns
• Add a compact README demo GIF or terminal screenshot

g1d30nB/nudge

• West and north resize handles
• Gesture to select an element's parent
• Keep uncommitted changes across a hot reload

PipedreamHQ/pipedream

• [ACTION] Rewardful — Affiliate & Commission Management
• Add tools to Yahoo Sports
• [TRIGGER]
• Open new source to check Webhook [TRIGGER]
• eBay Creating/Publishing Listings
• [ACTION]
• [riddle_quiz_maker] Update app metadata: description, logo and MCP URL

ToolJet/ToolJet

• Community template: Unix time format converter
• [docs]: macOS contributor setup fails because postgresql@13 is disabled in Homebrew

gramps-project/gramps-web

• Feature request: Provide the ability in Grampsweb to change the genealogical symbols

ACM-Alexandria/ACM-Alexandria-Chapter-Official-Website

• Add Confirmation Modals for Critical Admin Dashboard Actions
• Refactor Event-Driven Email Notifications to support Manual Triggers and Toggles

Techhackontime999/NEURAL-AURORA

• a11y: Fix low-contrast text tokens that fail WCAG AA
• Bug: visitor counter increments twice in development (StrictMode)
• Bug: navbar anchor scroll hides section headings under the fixed header
• a11y: Respect prefers-reduced-motion for framer-motion animations
• Epic 1 · Sub: Recruiter-facing project filtering by role
• Epic 1 · Sub: Visitor role picker entry modal
• a11y: Mobile nav overlay — add focus trap, Esc-to-close and aria-expanded
• a11y: Keyboard access for clickable project cards