New Contributor: Need Help Understanding the Baileys Codebase and Where to Start

[Pavan-Kumar-KN]

Hello everyone,
I’m a beginner to open-source development, and this is my first open-source project that I want to contribute to. I’ve recently started exploring the Baileys WhatsApp Web API project and really want to understand its architecture and how I can meaningfully start contributing.

So far, I’ve:

• Cloned and run the example successfully.
• Read through the wiki and documentation.
• Explored the makeWASocket() function and event listeners like messages.upsert and connection.update.

However, I’m finding it a bit challenging to understand how the different core modules like auth, signal store, and proto files interact. Could someone please help me with a roadmap or some guidance on which parts of the code to study first if my goal is to start contributing to small issues (like bug fixes or features)?

Any beginner-friendly tips on reading the Baileys source code or understanding its event-handling workflow would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for your time and for maintaining such an amazing project!

[hnustag1]

Hello, I recently need to work on a project that involves this open-source library. I hope we can exchange ideas. Could you provide me with a version of the sample code that you have successfully run?

[InvictusNavarchus]

What for? Why would you need a sample code? The entire repository is open source. This doesn't make sense.

[ojuolokun86]

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