3 Steps to Improve Your GitHub Overview Page

In this article, you will learn how to improve your GitHub overview page by adding your own content and dynamically generated GitHub stats.

Let’s get started.

1. Create a new repository. The repository name needs to be the same as your GitHub account name.
2. e.g. https://github.com/shinokada/shinokada
3. Create a README.md file in this repo.
4. The contents of this file will be on your GitHub overview page.

You can use markdown to add headers, images, links, tables, emoji, and lists.

You can find many programming language icons from the GitHub explore repo. All the icons are under the topic folder.

This repository houses all of the community-curated content for GitHub Topics and Collections. (Image by the author)

3. Add GitHub Stats Cards.

Github Readme Stats dynamically generate GitHub stats about your repositories.

There are three kinds of stats cards.

• Stats Card
• Top Language Card
• Extra Pin

#programming #git #markdown #github #software-development

What is GEEK

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A Simple Guide to Github Page Deployment

Long story short: Jekyll is a template engine changing

markdowndocuments on staticHTMLwebpages, that you can then host anywyere, because you don’t need databases or server that has PHP or Python.

Usual Process

Normally the process of adding new post looks like this:

• I write markdown document with setting parameters like title, date and tags
• when I’m happy with what I wrote (never), I commit changes and push it to repository on GitHub. Repository name comes from my nick and is also address for blog asvid.github.io
• Github after pushing to branch master builds website from sources using Jekyll - probably something like running jekyll build
• result of Jekyll build is not present in a repository, but you see it right now after visiting bloga page

#github-pages #github-page-with-jekyll #jekyll #github-actions #github #deployment #continuous-deployment #web-development

Deploying my portfolio website on Github Pages using Github Actions.

I recently deployed  my portfolio site and wanted to try out github actions and this is my experience of automating the deployment.

This article is more focused on how you can use the GitHub actions and how easy it is to deploy your code to GitHub pages rather than the portfolio site code.So every time you make an update or build to your website ,the changes are automatically reflected and this automated deploying process makes work much faster.

The way GitHub action works is you create actions in your repositories by creating one or more yaml files and these are called workflows.Workflows now can handle build tasks like CI CD. This means you use the action to test your code and push the site to the desired hosting platform (in this case GitHub pages ) when the main branch changes .

First step assuming that you have a GitHub account is to create a repository having your website code in it.Now I have a bootstrap website but in the future I do plan on adding node JS so I already added package.json.

#workflow #portfolio #github #github-actions #github-pages

How to Compare Multiple GitHub Projects with Our GitHub Stats tool

If you have project code hosted on GitHub, chances are you might be interested in checking some numbers and stats such as stars, commits and pull requests.

You might also want to compare some similar projects in terms of the above mentioned stats, for whatever reasons that interest you.

We have the right tool for you: the simple and easy-to-use little tool called GitHub Stats.

Let’s dive right in to what we can get out of it.

Getting started

This interactive tool is really easy to use. Follow the three steps below and you’ll get what you want in real-time:

1. Head to the GitHub repo of the tool

2. Enter as many projects as you need to check on

3. Hit the Update button beside each metric

In this article we are going to compare three most popular machine learning projects for you.

#github #tools #github-statistics-react #github-stats-tool #compare-github-projects #github-projects #software-development #programming

3 Steps to Improve Your GitHub Overview Page

In this article, you will learn how to improve your GitHub overview page by adding your own content and dynamically generated GitHub stats.

Let’s get started.

1. Create a new repository. The repository name needs to be the same as your GitHub account name.
2. e.g. https://github.com/shinokada/shinokada
3. Create a README.md file in this repo.
4. The contents of this file will be on your GitHub overview page.

You can use markdown to add headers, images, links, tables, emoji, and lists.

You can find many programming language icons from the GitHub explore repo. All the icons are under the topic folder.

This repository houses all of the community-curated content for GitHub Topics and Collections. (Image by the author)

3. Add GitHub Stats Cards.

Github Readme Stats dynamically generate GitHub stats about your repositories.

There are three kinds of stats cards.

• Stats Card
• Top Language Card
• Extra Pin

#programming #git #markdown #github #software-development

Multiple Environments With GitHub Pages

Or… When you’re working on a static site and GitHub Pages feels like the perfect hosting solution, since you like having everything in one place and then you realize you need an additional environment but you still don’t want to use anything but GitHub… Here’s what you can do.

This is a “special needs” article but also a general introduction to GitHub Actions.

Since the advent of Single Page Applications the requirements for hosting have been reduced to a minimum. Anything that can serve a static HTML file will do the job just fine and the browser, bombarded with Javascript, does the heavy lifting. High availability and security is a totally different topic of course but in this case I believe GitHub has you covered.

With Pages GitHub offers a very convenient service for hosting such an app. You push to your repository and GitHub updates the deployment for you. You even get a nice subdomain like username.github.io or you can connect your own domain. There’s just one downside.

If your project is not just a literally very static website but an actual “app” and you are working together with other people, you probably want to have multiple deployments, like a development and a staging environment. The problem is… A repository on GitHub can only have a single GitHub Page instance and you probably don’t want to maintain a mirror repository for each of your environments, so you’ll end up using an external hosting service and then you start questioning GitHub Pages as your preferred hosting solution all together. In this article I will show you what I did to “stay on GitHub“.

GitHub Actions & Workflows

Not only does GitHub offer free hosting but also free and pretty flexible and powerful workflow automation with  GitHub Actions. If you are not already familiar with CI/CD and GitHub Actions in particular, I recommend you to change that asap. I ignored this topic for far too long but now I’m a huge fan. It simply gives you superpowers.

I’ll try to give you a brief but effective introduction:

GitHub runs virtual machines that act as task runners for your projects. Those tasks can either run on a schedule, as a cronjob, or get  triggered by events that occur on GitHub, like pushing commits to a branch, opening or closing issues or commenting on them, to name some common ones. These tasks can be comprised of multiple steps that can be chained together and depend on one another, hence the term Workflows. The terminology is the following: Workflows have one or more jobs, each with one or more steps, which can make use of an action, which can have inputs and outputs.

Actions are the “atoms” a workflow is made of, so to say. An action is a repository on GitHub, containing an action.yml file, describing its inputs and outputs. That means an action can basically do anything you want. It is worth mentioning though, that you actually don’t even have to use actions in your workflows at all. You can also just run arbitrary commands on the operating system the workflow runs on and sometimes that is all you need. You can think of GitHub Workflows simply as… “executing stuff” on a virtual machine that GitHub spawns for you on demand.

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