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Contributing to Tab for a Cause!

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It's been a long year of many efforts, but I'm excited to be back and blogging on ways to contribute to open source! Recently, I've been looking at a project called Tab For A Cause, which is a cute little chrome extension that enables you to donate ad revenue to the charity of your choice! They have a couple open issues, including some good starter ones for frontend developers trying to dip their toes into the open source world. In this blog post, I'll talk you through the steps of how to get set up to contribute, and at the end, I'll talk you through what I plan on doing next! Getting Started: First off, I checked out their git repo  to see if there were any contributing guidelines or any setup steps in the README . There wasn't a community contribution guidelines doc, but the README did provide some basic prerequisite requirements as well as setup steps. Installing the Prerequisites I'm working on a Mac, so I am using Homebrew to handle my installations. A