Building Tools with GitHub: Customize Your Workflow - Softcover

Dawson, Chris; Straub, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149193350X ISBN 13: 9781491933503

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2016

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Chris Dawson is an ex-employee of several notable companies (Apple, RealNetworks and Virage) and igniter of several mostly failed startups. He's also a proud native Portlander, and enjoys time with his wife and new baby, scheming for a 30 hour day. Chris notes that his ten-month-old son is full of wonder, but worries that we have lost the capacity to wonder now that Google is accessible on cell phones. He is a fan of personal growth work, no matter how painful or weird. As such, he finds he learns something new about himself every time he pens (or taps out) a blog entry.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149193350X
• ISBN 13: 9781491933503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302