Improve onboarding experience for new contributors (ChilliCream#4174)

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Before you spend time writing code, make sure of the following things:
 
 After this you can fork our repository to implement your changes. If you are unfamiliar with forking, be sure to read [this guide](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/) first.
 
+To get started with the codebase, see [How to launch and build the solution](#how-to-launch-and-build-the-solution).
+
 ### Before submitting a pull request
 
 Before submitting a pull request containing your changes, make sure that it checks the following requirements:
@@ -56,6 +58,15 @@ Follow [this guide](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-
 
 Core contributors will review your pull request and provide feedback.
 
+## How to launch and build the solution
+
+We use [Nuke](https://nuke.build/) for build automation. It can be used to bootstrap you a complete solution file.
+Simply run build.ps1, build.sh or build.cmd and then in the src directory you can open up All.sln.
+
+There are other available commands too. As setup in the [.build](./.build/) directory.
+
+Other more focused solution files exist if you want to narrow in on a particular part of the platform.
+
 ## Code of conduct
 
 See [CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md](./CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md)

README.md

@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ Examples of things built on top of the ChilliCream GraphQL Platform that are ope
 - [GraphQL workshop](https://github.com/ChilliCream/graphql-workshop)
 - [HotChocolate examples](https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate-examples)
 
+## Contributing
+
+[Become a code contributor](CONTRIBUTING.md) and help us make the ChilliCream GraphQL platform even better!
+
 ## From our community
 
 [Check out](COMMUNITY.md) what members of our awesome community have made!