Episode #7 - Tools - Github

Description of GitHub
- hosted platform for managing your source code from creation/ideation to production
- built-in actions and workflows to control your code build and deploys while not leaving GitHub's platform.

GitHub Project Structure
- It can be as varied as the languages that you can code in.

readme files
- how to tell the world about your GitHub project
- uses markdown for formatting

Pros/Cons of using GitHub
- Easy access for anyone with an internet connection
- Built-in process to enhance automation
- Its in the cloud....always a risk
- Only as good as what you put into it
- Concerns about Intellectual Property
- Concerns about security tokens, passwords, IDs, SSH keys, etc.

Workflows
- automate tasks directly in GitHub

Webhooks
- Used to drive automation tasks with other systems (or within GitHub itself)

GitHub Pages
- a website for your project....done right from your GitHub repo
- can use a custom domain name that you own

Integrations
- Integrates with almost any tool via Webhooks
- GitHUb has developed a lot of their own offerings around certain technologies

Code Review
- It all starts with a pull request
- diffs, history, blame
- embedded chat
- conflict resolution
- Integrations with other code review tools

GitHub Actions (or features/workflows)
- automation workflows built into GitHub
- run on any event
- hosted runners for most major OS flavors
- parallel builds for different OS or browser combination
- supports many languages
- users can build their own runners
- live logging for real-time build debugging
- built in secrets management

GitHub Products
- Atom - IDE
- Electron - Open source cross platform development with javascript, html, and css
- GitHub LFS - Large file storage offering
- IDE Plugins
- Mobile App
- GitHub Marketplace
- GitHub Security Lab

Git Merge Conference in March 2020 - Sponsored by GitHub

Coming up next - A look at BitBucket - Atlassian's Git offering.