Building Tools with GitHub
Language: English
Published by O Reilly Media, 2016
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You use GitHub all day long as a developer. Now learn how to use GitHub as a power user. Learn the ins and outs of the GitHub API using many of the most popular programming languages. Supercharge your development with command line shortcuts. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: UM. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Building Tools with GitHub
- Author
- C Dawson
- Publisher
- O Reilly Media
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 149193350X
- ISBN 13
- 9781491933503
For your next project on GitHub, take advantage of the service’s powerful API to meet your unique development requirements. This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chapter is a compelling story that walks you through the tradeoffs and considerations for building applications on top of various GitHub technologies.
If you’re an experienced programmer familiar with GitHub, you’ll learn how to build tools with the GitHub API and related open source technologies such as Jekyll (site builder), Hubot (NodeJS chat robot), and Gollum (wiki).
- Build a simple Ruby server with Gist API command-line tools and Ruby’s "Octokit" API client
- Use the Gollum command-line tool to build an image management application
- Build a GUI tool to search GitHub with Python
- Document interactions between third-party tools and your code
- Use Jekyll to create a fully-featured blog from material in your GitHub repository
- Create an Android mobile application that reads and writes information into a Jekyll repository
- Host an entire single-page JavaScript application on GitHub
- Use Hubot to automate pull request reviews
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About the Author
Chris Dawson comes from a family of public school teachers. From an early age, computers provided an always fascinating and often frustrating complement to learning and teaching for Chris. Notably inconspicuous at several notable startups and technology companies like Apple, Virage and RealNetworks, Chris gratefully had the opportunity to live on three continents and experience the power and dynamism of diverse communities. As such, it is with great relish that Chris has been participating in and documenting one of the most exciting learning communities of the 21st century: GitHub.
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