I’ve forked and made minor pull requests in the past, but this past week (a full 3 days of analyzing/coding & 1 day of documentation), I made my first real fork of an existing project. It was quite the task as I had to learn the ins and outs of the existing codebase in order to make the large changes I wanted. Today, I’ll be talking about my entire thought process as I forked google-maps-services-js into react-native-google-maps-services.