Dev Snippets is (or intends to be) a collection of useful code snippets for new developers.

Initially this started as a little personal project, just somewhere for me to save those little snippets of code, that I need every so often but that I can never remember.

Unfortunately, like most side projects, I've not really had time to get it going. However, with Hacktoberfest looming, I thought why not resurrect it, opening it up for others to contribute to, helping people make their first open source contribution's, whilst building an awesome set of snippets for us all to use!

There are no hard and fast rules here, so please feel free to contribute by opening a pull request adding your snippet. This isn't a new idea so check out projects like DevHints for inspiration.

...And if you're still not sure, or you need some help, just open an issue or drop me a message @rick_west8 and I'll do my best to guide you through it!

• Fork it (https://github.com/yourname/yourproject/fork)
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
• Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
• Create a new Pull Request

Don't be intimidated, if you're just adding a simple snippet to a markdown file, you probably don't even need to get Dev Snippets up and running locally. You can just make your changes to the correct file and open a pull request.

However, if you want to make a large contribution or are confident enough to get stuck in, follow the instructions 👇 .

Dev Snippets is built with Jigsaw, so you need to have PHP 7 and Composer installed on your machine. You'll also need Node.js, NPM and Yarn installed in order to use Laravel Mix to compile the CSS and Javascript.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/rickwest/devsnippets.git devsnippets

2. Install dependencies

    cd devsnippets
    composer install
    yarn install

Now that you have everything installed, you can serve the site using PHP ./vendor/bin/jigsaw serve or alternatively, using Browsersync yarn run watch

Navigate to http://localhost:3000/snippets/welcome/ and you should now see the website!

For more help getting started, be sure to check out the official documentation. It really is good!

Adding a snippet is simply a case of locating the correct markdown file and making the desired changes.

All snippets are located in the source/snippets/ directory.

If you are creating a new snippet page, the top of each snippet page contains a YAML header that specifies how it should be rendered. The title attribute is used to dynamically generate HTML title and OpenGraph tags for each page. The extends attribute defines which parent Blade layout this content file will render with (e.g. _layouts.documentation will render with source/_layouts/documentation.blade.php), and the section attribute defines the Blade "section" that expects this content to be placed into it.

extends: _layouts.documentation
section: content
title: My Awesome Snippet
description: An interesting Dev Snippet and also my first Open Source contribution!

Your snippet content

You will also need to add your new page to the navigation array specified in navigation.php and don't forget to add your name to CONTRIBUTORS.md.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.