# Trying to understand how infinite scrolling works in Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-understand-how-infinite-scrolling-works-in-discourse/109653
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-understand-how-infinite-scrolling-works-in-discourse/109653 "2019-02-20T13:29:38Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-understand-how-infinite-scrolling-works-in-discourse/109653/7 "2019-02-21T04:17:12Z")

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I can help here:

See:

> [@Contributing to Discourse development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-development-contribution-guidelines/3823):
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> bookmark This guide is designed for those who wish to contribute to the Discourse open-source project, detailing the setup and conventions necessary for effective collaboration. person_raising_hand Required user level: While anyone can contribute code, you will need to be familiar with Ruby and JavaScript. Summary This documentation will cover the following: Setting up your development environment Understanding where to begin contributing Creating and working with Discourse plugins Co…

Then once you are done with that and have a dev environment up, work through 2-3 or so #starter-task’s , after that submit about 10-20 PRs that are #pr-welcome, once you did all of that, please feel free to post a well framed technical question asking for guidance.

You are asking skyscraper construction level questions, got to start by building your first mud hut.

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