GitHub For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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

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

In this chapter, I 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, I look at a few useful extensions that work with GitHub. Some of these extensions are available for multiple browsers, but I focus on Google Chrome extensions for brevity.

For a more comprehensive list of browser extensions that work with GitHub, check out this list of awesome browser extensions for GitHub repository made by Stefan Buck at https://github.com/stefanbuck/awesome-browser-extensions-for-github ...