This isn’t going to be a detailed article, I just wanted to mark the fact that I’ve just made my first contribution to an open-source repo! It isn’t a large change, it’s a one-word edit to an article in the Microsoft Graph API docs to correct a URL path that was incorrect, but I’ve been a developer for some years now and have never contributed to an OS project before.
I’m working on a side project that makes use of the Microsoft Graph API (hopefully a blog coming on that in the future) and the docs have been great! However when I was following the guide on swapping a refresh token for an access token, I was getting 400 responses from the documented URL. Because I’m unexperienced with the Graph API I assumed I was doing something wrong, so spent over 30 minutes trying to fix my API call, but I couldn’t see what was wrong. I eventually figured out that the URL was incorrect and should use the tenant ID like the other endpoints in the docs. I’m a big fan of the Microsoft technical docs in general and I knew that they were open source on GitHub, so I figured that this would be a great opportunity to help out and fix this small issue for them.
You can have a look at the PR here if you like, but it isn’t particularly impressive.
Anyway, that’s it. Have a great day!