When working on new features or bug fixes within your app, using the GitHub UI to open pull requests can quickly become tedious. You have to navigate to the GitHub repo in question, select the branch you are trying to submit a pull request to, and then go through the further steps related to creating your pull request. The GitHub developer API aims to abstract all of this away into one simple HTTP call. This API can save you tons of time over the long term.

This guide will demonstrate how you can use the GitHub API to create your pull request for you by creating your own command line or UI in order to take away a bunch of the manual steps needed in this process.

API Overview and Setup

The GitHub API is split into two big sections: REST and GraphQL. This guide will use the REST API, although the GraphQL API is a great alternative if you are used to working with GraphQL.

#github #api