React is one of the most amazing libraries that has been released in the last few years, not only because of the library itself and its great features but, most importantly, due to the ecosystem that has been built around it.

Following the React community is very exciting and inspiring; there are new projects and tools to learn and play with every single day. Not just that, there are conferences and meetups where you can talk to people in real life and build new relationships, blog posts that you can read to improve your skills and learn more, and many other ways to become a better developer.

React and its ecosystem are encouraging best practices and love for open source in developers, which is fantastic for the future of our careers.

In this chapter, we will cover the following  topics:

• How to contribute to the React library by opening issues and pull requests
• Why it is important to give back to the community and share your code
• The most important aspects to keep in mind when pushing open source code
• How to publish an npm package and how to use semantic versioning