contributing to Oppia codebase

[Audrey-me]

Hi @seanlip, I tried contributing to Oppia code base but I keep getting errors while setting up the project locally even after following up the documentation.
Will really appreciate if anyone that has passed the setup phase can put me through

[seanlip]

Hi @audrey2001, your best bet is the Web github discussions: https://github.com/oppia/oppia/discussions . However, it looks like you've found that already and asked your question there.

In general, we can only provide suggestions, not bespoke help with your installation, since we don't know enough about how to replicate the environment/system you're on. That said, I'd like to point out that the code is open source, and you can examine it on your local machine. So, I would just advocate general developer practices: look at the error, look at the files and lines mentioned in the error, print logging statements, etc., and try to figure out what is going on. This is because you're probably the person who has the most chance of being able to resolve the error, since you would be able to reproduce it locally and debug/investigate what's happening. I know this is not a complete solution, but I hope it helps a bit.

[Audrey-me]

@seanlip yeah your answer helped, I will just use dev tools to investigate the error and try fixing it from there in the meantime until I finally figure out the local setup.
that will make my work faster by then.