Contributing to React

One thing that people often want to do when they've used React for a while is to contribute to the library. React is open source which means that its source code is public and anyone who's signed the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) can help to fix bugs, write documentation, or even add new features.

You can read the full terms of the CLA at the following URL:

https://code.facebook.com/cla

Suppose, for example, you were building an application with React and you found a bug, what should you do? The first and most important thing is to create a small reproducible example of the problem. To do that, there is a handy JSFiddle template provided by the React team:

https://jsfiddle.net/reactjs/69z2wepo/

This operation has two key benefits:

• It helps you to be 100% confident that the bug is effectively a React bug and not just an issue with your application code
• It helps the React team understand the problem quickly without having to delve into your application...