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Add contributors section to README 🏆

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
90/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
markdown
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open README.md and find a suitable place for the supplied contributors section. Add the heading, thank-you text, and contributors image link from the issue; the task is done when the section appears in the README and links to the repository’s contributors graph.

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Description

documentation good first issue

Add contributors section to README 🏆

File: README.md

README has no shoutout to contributors 💀
They worked hard and deserve credit fr!!

Fix: add this section to README.md:

🏆 Contributors

Thanks to all the amazing people
who have contributed to DevBoard!

Contributors

Just add that image link to README.md!!
It auto-updates with every new contributor 🔥
No code needed — pure markdown!!

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
39
Forks
105
Avg merge
1d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
28

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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