docs: 📝 contributing instructions added

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Contributing
+
+Firstly, thank you for considering to contribute.
+
+## How to contribute
+
+There are multiple ways to contribute to this project. The most common way is to fork this repository, make changes and open a pull request. If you're not sure what to work on, you can check the issues tab to see if there are any open issues which you can work on or if you have any ideas, you can open a new issue and discuss it.
+
+### Reporting bugs
+
+If you find any bugs, you can report them by [creating an bug report](https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/ts-npm-template/issues/new?template=bug_report.md). Please make sure to include as much information as possible so that it's easier to reproduce the bug.
+
+### Requesting features
+
+If you feel that the project is missing a feature, you can raise a [feature request](https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/ts-npm-template/issues/new?template=feature_request.md) on GitHub and I'll look into it or better yet, you can open a pull request with the feature.
+
+### Commit messages
+
+Please make sure to follow the [conventional commit messages](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) format while making changes. This helps in generating changelogs and versioning the package.
+
+---
+
+That's it, go ahead and fork this repo and start contributing 🍻

README.md

@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ Once you have followed the steps above and created a gist, uncomment these lines
 - 🔀 [Github Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) - CI pipelines
 - 💪 [PNPM](https://pnpm.io/) - Package manager
 
+## Contributing 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼
+
+Follow the [contribution guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.md) to contribute to this project.
+
 ## Bugs or Requests 🐛
 
 If you encounter any problems feel free to open an [issue](https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/ts-npm-template/issues/new?template=bug_report.md). If you feel the project is missing a feature, please raise a [ticket](https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/ts-npm-template/issues/new?template=feature_request.md) on GitHub and I'll look into it. Pull requests are also welcome.