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JavaScript Good First Issues

Open issues from GitHub projects written in JavaScript. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly; each issue links to GitHub, where you claim it and send the pull request.

JavaScript

Open issues
1M
New this week
15.1k
Nobody on it yet
874k
Average difficulty
3.5/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.5/5 across 1,043,557 issues.
  • 18% of 1,043,557 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 15, 2026.

About JavaScript

The language of the browser (Brendan Eich, 1995). It also runs on servers through Node.js, and drives most front-end tooling.

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How many JavaScript issues are open here?
1,038,339 open issues: 15,063 opened in the last seven days, and 874,242 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
Can you pick one for me?
Yes: sign in with GitHub and Your next issue shows one open issue nobody has claimed, matched to your languages, your time and the difficulty you want.

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