Become a flatpickr dev!

[chmln]

Hey guys,

As you may have noticed, the speed of development in the recent months has slowed down. I am studying at university full-time and working part-time, which along with other responsibilities doesn't leave enough time for me to take proper care of flatpickr.

While I aim to stay as the lead developer, I need some help from the community to take flatpickr to the next level. So check out the pros/requirements below, and pick an aspect of the project that you'd like to improve.

You don't need to be an expert developer to help. Beginners are most welcome.

Pros of being a maintainer/contributor

• Having a very popular project on your github profile
• Excellent learning opportunity to become a TypeScript/JavaScript expert
• Become a pro at css/stylus and learn to deal with any cross-browser problems
• On request, I will write you a nice recommendation letter for your future employers

You may help out by any of the following (your choice)

• Squash bugs reported by users
  • previous coding experience helps, but not necessary
• Moderating new github issues (just 1-2 per day, at your convenience)
• Improving the documentation
• Code reviewing pull requests
• Writing awesome new features

Cool, where do I sign up?

Just comment below with your email or telegram and state which areas you would like to help project improve on :)

[DM2489]

Good to see that you're reaching out to the community and are asking for help.

I wonder if the developers of the Flatpickr components for frameworks (React, Angular, Vue etc.) such as @ankurk91 would be able/willing to provide more technical support in terms of code reviewing and writing new features? These are the people who will be most intimate with Flatpickr's functionality outside of the core development team. Have these people been approached directly?

I think it's important to state your desire for future releases. I know there have been a lot of commits to master since 4.5.2 through pull requests, but no release has happened since. It may be good to state who will be able to create new releases, as this may influence peoples decisions.

Will you be releasing a new version before adding new members to the team? It may be prudent to get a new release out, iron out any issues created by the commits merged since September, and then introduce new members to the project on a stable codebase.

[chmln]

@DM2489 Yes, I am going to get a release out within the next few days. Its taken a while as I need to allocate some time to test out all the changes merged and take another look at the code.

[viorelsfetea]

I am more than interested in this. I can get involved in all of the areas, but I'd like to work on squashing the bugs at first - I think that's a good start. I estimate I can easily put in 4-6 hours a week for the next few months.

My Telegram is https://t.me/viorel_me

[blemaire]

Hey, I've recently started to use flatpickr and would love to get involved with it. Happy to help in all areas too 😄 https://t.me/Bastien_bkbc

[viorelsfetea]

Hi, were you able to think of a plan for this? I'm with @DM2489 for having a stable release and picking up from there, to avoid duplicate efforts

[chmln]

Update: v4.5.3 is out! :rocket: :rocket: I will be getting in touch with all of you shortly :)

[chhaymenghong]

thanks for new releases!!! Good work!

[SDJLee]

I would like to contribute. Would like to work on all areas. My email: [email protected]

[chmln]

@SDJLee awesome. will get in touch within a few days :)

[AbuzerAsif]

@chmln I would love to work on flatpickr. I can help in all areas. I am using this library for years now, and it is amazing. I can also help with Angular package. Here is my email [email protected]

[chmln]

@AbuzerAsif that's awesome. will get in touch with you soon :)

[neeschit]

I'd love to contribute everywhere as well. I'm currently working on a TypeScript React hook for using flatpickr. Great work btw! email is [email protected]

[armujahid]

I'd also love to contribute. Currently I am planning to build an IE optimized datepicker webcomponent using Polymer 2.

[peterwiebe]

I can help to be a maintainer, one of the things I could help with is to help organize releases. You can reach me at [email protected].

[jensgustafsson]

I'm interested in helping out moving this project forward! Everything from smashing bugs, to handling releases, to closing/resolving reported issues would be of interest.

I've been working quite a lot on a wrapping this package in a web-component the past month which has made me quite familiar with its codebase. You can reach me at [email protected]

[chmln]

Hey @jensgustafsson @peterwiebe are you guys interested still ? I would love to have someone to collaborate on features with

[jensgustafsson]

Hey @jensgustafsson @peterwiebe are you guys interested still ? I would love to have someone to collaborate on features with

I'm still interested! :)

[peterwiebe]

Definitely still interested @chmln

Hey @jensgustafsson @peterwiebe are you guys interested still ? I would love to have someone to collaborate on features with

[armujahid]

I am also interested. I can moderate issues and review pull requests. I can also work on small bug fixes and new features. I am already familiar with this repo because I created custom web component (Polymer 2) wrapper of flatpicker for my company a year ago. Few of my PRs are already merged in this repo and I have already flagged/tested some issues.

Merged PRs: https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aarmujahid+is%3Aclosed Issues on which I have commented: https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr/issues?q=commenter%3Aarmujahid+is%3Aopen

PR that can be merged (I rebased and tested that) : https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr/pull/1129 Issue that can be closed (already fixed in master and verified): https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr/issues/2049

Email: [email protected] Telegram: @armujahid

[arifkhn46]

I would love to contribute in this project.

[rlue]

I've been digging into this project in the hopes of fleshing out a more complete fix for #269 (specifically, a feature @thejae asked for back in 2017—month range selection). Now that I know a bit more about the codebase, I'd be interested in helping out with it, as well.

Are you still looking for contributors?

[chmln]

Hey guys I just sent out a bunch of invites, congratulations on becoming a maintainer :tada: :tada: Look forward to working together and pushing flatpickr forward

[liborm85]

If this issue was unpinned from top of page, was flatpickr maintainer found? Activity almost none, bugs exists,... Issue https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr/issues/1271 is blocking for me...

[armujahid]

I accidentally unpinned this although I don't remember when. Let me pin that again.

[edwardsteven]

Keen to jump in and help start closing some of the open issues - especially a lot of the noise with people asking for help. Also keen to help with reviewing some of the current open PRs

[jonatandorozco]

I can help

[ishu202]

i would definitely love to be a part of flatpickr i have learned a-lot doing this recent project for a company and the more i do javascript more interesting it is to me. one of the front end dev at my company got sick due to covid so i had to do the widget on my own. long story short count me in

key areas where i would love to improve flat picker is the rangePlugin it was quite frustrating when i tried implementing the range plugin the amount of bugs it had. like if the new instance of the flatpickr is created and once the range is selected. normal operation should be that every time after a user choose a date it should start from there. this bug cause date ranges to be selected between the disabled dates which in some cases might not be good.

here is the widget i created it references all the flatpicker errors and solutions. https://github.com/ishu202/calenderwidget

P.S i am coming from a ASP.net and PHP background but so far from my experience javascript is the coolest thing ever happened.

my email is [email protected] and i live in Minnesota

[M-Abdullahi]

This project has been the go to when it comes to date picking. If the chance is still open, i can help out in:

• Moderating new issues
• Writing the documentation

[email protected] https://t.me/muhi3849

[eskayamadeus]

I love this project, as it has made my current project much easier and seems to be better than others like bootstrap-datepicker. I'd love to join the development team, helping out in the following areas: squashing bugs, reviewing documentation and writing new features.

You may reach me via [email protected]

[mshibuya]

@chmln Can I help maintaining this project? I have proven experience of persistently maintaining popular Ruby on Rails related projects, like RailsAdmin and CarrierWave.

I hate to see issues and PRs piling up, I can help triaging them. Recently I decided to introduce Flatpickr to my project RailsAdmin, so I need it to be maintained well 😓 You can reach me via [email protected].

Thank you for your hard work of maintaining the project!