Sharing my learnings from contributing to AstroJS

Last weekend i was sitting in my sofa and vibe coding an app in AstroJS using Claude Code. There was a problem, whenever I used to get an error I had to manually copy the stack trace, give it to claude and resume the coding again.

This happened quite a few times, and selecting in mouse was little to annoying, it needed a copy button.

So i took some time off, cloned the astro repo, and started exploring the code, like this I was able to understand the error component, add a copy button there, write e2e test case for that, and get my PR for the repo

(Find the link down, its yet to be merged since the team is out)

I learned a lot in the process of creating this PR, as astrojs, so want to share them with the community.

• Speaking in general about things to keep in mind while contributing

• How AI editors helped me navigate the codebase

• Building the astro core pack, and testing the change

• General learning from this

Another reason being, we have very less students from Mangalore in general contributing to open-source, hoping i can spark some interest in them by sharing this story.

Just the fact that the copy button will be used by millions of developer around the world feels fascinating.