GitHub For Dummies

Chapter 14

Personalizing GitHub

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using Chrome Extensions to extend GitHub

Setting up Probot to personalize GitHub

Using GitHub Actions to customize GitHub

When GitHub created the Atom text editor, it set out to build the most hackable text editor ever. The tagline for Atom is “A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.” Atom focused on that tagline because it recognized that software developers can be very particular about their tools. Developers have a lot of opinions about how they work and invest a lot of time personalizing their tools to work just the way they want.

The same is true for GitHub.com itself. GitHub offers an extensive API that lets developers write tools to interact with GitHub data in a myriad of ways. Also, since GitHub.com runs in a browser, anyone can build browser extensions to customize the experience of using GitHub.

In this chapter, we look at some of the available ways to personalize your use of GitHub.

Using Browser Extensions

Browser extensions can completely customize the experience of using a browser. You can find extensions for every possible scenario you can think of.

In this section, we look at a few useful extensions that work ...