One thing that he left off his list of things to make contributing successful is seeking up a "docker" box which is ready to go for development. (Or a vagrant

One thing that he left off his list of things to make contributing successful is seeking up a "docker" box which is ready to go for development. (Or a vagrant file) If the image is set up so it "just works" and has all tools preinstalled, you can be up and running locally in seconds. With NPM scripts, its often possible to run I to problems with node-gyp... Or any other number of cross platform incompatiblities. The docker/vagrant route is a really novel solution I've seen used effectively in other projects.