Hi everyone,
I’m new to open source and contributing, so please pardon me if I’m wrong or being silly.
On this page, setting up FCC locally is recommended, but on this one, using GitHub Codespaces is recommended.
Is this a mistake or just context-specific advice?
Also, where’s the best place to ask small or beginner questions like this if they’re too trivial to belong here; I’m a really curious person and ask a lot of them.
Thanks
you can ask on discord https://chat.freecodecamp.org/ if you don’t want to open a topic on the forum
but the forum is also here to answer your questions
anyway, both are valid ways to contribute, one it’s easier and more beginner friendly (setting up a local environment can be a pain), the other is more adapt to long term contributions
the only reason I would prefer a cloud IDE is if my machine would not be able to manage the device, like if I travel and still have to work and need to bring my laptop – then I would use an online IDE.
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