Nushell Project Components, Contributions, and Community

- [Programming in Nu](programming_in_nu.md) dives more deeply into the language features and shows several ways how to organize and structure your code. - [Nu as a Shell](nu_as_a_shell.md) focuses on the shell features, most notably the configuration and environment. - [Coming to Nu](coming_to_nu.md) is intended to give a quick start for users coming from other shells or languages. - [Design Notes](design_notes.md) has in-depth explanation of some of the Nushell's design choices. - [(Not So) Advanced](advanced.md) includes some more advanced topics (they are not _so_ advanced, make sure to check them out, too!). ## The Many Parts of Nushell The Nushell project consists of multiple different repositories and subprojects. You can find all of them under [our organization on GitHub](https://github.com/nushell). - The main Nushell repository can be found [here](https://github.com/nushell/nushell). It is broken into multiple crates that can be used as independent libraries in your own project, if you wish so. - The repository of our [nushell.sh](https://www.nushell.sh) page, including this book, can be found [here](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io). - Nushell has its own line editor which [has its own repository](https://github.com/nushell/reedline) - [`nu_scripts`](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts) is a place to share scripts and modules with other users until we have some sort of package manager. - [Nana](https://github.com/nushell/nana) is an experimental effort to explore graphical user interface for Nushell. - [Awesome Nu](https://github.com/nushell/awesome-nu) contains a list of tools that work with the Nushell ecosystem: plugins, scripts, editor extension, 3rd party integrations, etc. - [Nu Showcase](https://github.com/nushell/showcase) is a place to share works about Nushell, be it blogs, artwork or something else. - [Request for Comment (RFC)](https://github.com/nushell/rfcs) serves as a place to propose and discuss major design changes. While currently under-utilized, we expect to use it more as we get closer to and beyond 1.0. ## Contributing We welcome contributions! [As you can see](#the-many-parts-of-nushell), there are a lot of places to contribute to. Most repositories contain `CONTRIBUTING.md` file with tips and details that should help you get started (if not, consider contributing a fix!). Nushell itself is written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org). However, you do not have to be a Rust programmer to help. If you know some web development, you can contribute to improving this website or the Nana project. [Dataframes](dataframes.md) can use your data processing expertise. If you wrote a cool script, plugin or integrated Nushell somewhere, we'd welcome your contribution to `nu_scripts` or Awesome Nu. Discovering bugs with reproduction steps and filing GitHub issues for them is a valuable help, too! You can contribute to Nushell just by using Nushell! Since Nushell evolves fast, this book is in a constant need of updating. Contributing to this book does not require any special skills aside from a basic familiarity with Markdown. Furthermore, you can consider translating parts of it to your language. ## Community The main place to discuss anything Nushell is our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/NtAbbGn). You can also follow our [blog](https://www.nushell.sh/blog) for news and updates. Finally, you can use the GitHub discussions or file GitHub issues.

This section outlines the various components of the Nushell project, including repositories for the core shell, website, line editor, scripts, GUI experiments, and resources like 'Awesome Nu' and 'Nu Showcase'. It also highlights the 'Request for Comment' repository for proposing design changes. The text encourages contributions to various parts of the project, regardless of Rust programming experience, and suggests ways to contribute, such as improving the website, writing scripts, reporting bugs, and updating the book. Finally, it points to the project's Discord server, blog, and GitHub discussions as channels for community engagement.