Contributing

First off, thank you for considering contributing towards Dashy! 🙌 There are several ways that you can help out (but don't feel you have to). Any contributions, however small will always be very much appreciated, and you will be appropriately credited in the readme - huge thank you to everyone who has helped so far 💞

Submit a PR

Contributing to the code or documentation is super helpful. You can fix a bug, add a new feature or improve an existing one. I've written several guides to help you get started. For setting up the development environment, outline of the standards, and understanding the PR flow, see the Development Docs. I've tried to keep the code neat and documentation thorough, so understanding what everything does should be fairly straight forward, but feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Add Translations

If you speak another language, then adding translations would be really helpful, and you will be credited in the readme for your work. Multi-language support makes Dashy accessible for non-English speakers, which I feel is important. This is a very quick and easy task, as all application text is located in locales/en.json, so adding a new language is as simple as copying this file and translating the values. You don't have to translate it all, as any missing attributes will just fallback to English. For a full tutorial, see the Multi-Language Support Docs.

Take a 2-minute survey

Help improve Dashy by taking a very short, 6-question survey. This will give me a better understanding of what is important to you, so that I can make Dashy better in the future :)

Dashy now has a Showcase where you can show off a screenshot of your dashboard, and get inspiration from other users. I also really enjoy seeing how people are using Dashy. To submit your dashboard, please either open a PR or raise an issue.

Improve the Docs

Found a typo, or something that isn't as clear as it could be? Maybe I've missed something off altogether, or you hit a roadblock that took you a while to figure out. Submitting a pull request to add to or improve the documentation will help future users get Dashy up and running more easily. All content is located either in the ./README.md or /docs/ directory, and synced to the Wiki and website using a GH action.

Raise a bug

If you've found a bug, then please do raise it as an issue. This will help me know if there's something that needs fixing. Try and include as much detail as possible, such as your environment, steps to reproduce, any console output and maybe an example screenshot or recording if necessary.

Join the discussion

I've enabled the discussion feature on GitHub, here you can share tips and tricks, useful information, or your dashboard. You can also ask questions, and offer basic support to other users.

Spread the word

Dashy is still a relatively young project, and as such not many people know of it. It would be great to see more users, and so it would be awesome if you could consider sharing on social platforms.

Star, Upvote or Leave a Review

Dashy is on the following platforms, and if you could spare a few seconds to give it an upvote or review, this will also help new users find it.

Make a small donation

Please only do this is you can definitely afford to. Don't feel any pressure to donate anything, as Dashy and my other projects will always be 100% free, for everyone, for ever.

Sponsoring will give you several perks, from $1 / £0.70 per month, as well as a sponsor badge on your profile, you can also be credited on the readme, with a link to your website/ profile/ socials, get priority support, have your feature ideas implemented, plus lots more. For more info, see @Lissy93's Sponsor Page.

You can also send a one-off small contribution using crypto

BTC: 3853bSxupMjvxEYfwGDGAaLZhTKxB2vEVC
ETH: 0x0fc98cBf8bea932B4470C46C0FbE1ed1f6765017 / aliciasykes.eth
XMR: 471KZdxb6N63aABR4WYwMRjTVkc1p1x7wGsUTEF7AMYzL8L94A5pCuYWkosgJQ5Ze8Y2PscVCGZFJa3hDPg6MaDq47GUm8r

Request a feature via BountySource

BountySource is a platform for sponsoring the development of certain features on open source projects. If there is a feature you'd like implemented into Dashy, but either isn't high enough priority or is deemed to be more work than it's worth, then you can instead contribute a bounty towards it's development. You won't pay a penny until your proposal is fully built, and you are satisfied with the result. This helps support the developers, and makes Dashy better for everyone.

Enable Anonymous Bug Reports

Sentry is an open source error tracking and performance monitoring tool, which enables the identification any errors which occur in the production app (only if you enable it). It helps me to discover bugs I was unaware of, and then fix them, in order to make Dashy more reliable long term. This is a simple, yet really helpful step you can take to help improve Dashy.

To enable error reporting:

appConfig:
  enableErrorReporting: true

All reporting is disabled by default, and no data will ever be sent to any external endpoint without your explicit consent. In fact, the error tracking package will not even be imported unless you have actively enabled it. All statistics are anonomized and stored securely. For more about privacy and security, see the Sentry Docs.