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In explaining a problem it is likely that you will need to provide either code samples of the problem section(s), or a link to your code repository, or both. In general, when posting code samples, you want to give enough code to illustrate the problem, and no more. Just how much that is can be difficult to judge, however. Also, extremely long code samples tend to be hard to read through in a post, so if you have more than (say) 50 lines of code in a snippet, it may be better to link to it instead. Even with a smaller snippet, including a link to your repo is appreciated, as it may allow us to get some additional context for the issue.
Note that posting code, or a repo link, and telling us 'this doesn't work' is not sufficient. It is extremely rude to simply give a large code sample or a link to a repo and expect us to answer your problem without at least telling us where in the codebase you think the problem lies. Doing so without explainiung the failure mode (i.e., what is or isn't happening) is even more so. One would think this wouldn't need to be said, but apparently it does.
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