Learning Node.js Development

Setting up the repository

Now, out of the preceding three setup instructions, we don't need the one for creating a new repository. We are not going to use the one for importing our code from some other URL. What we have is an existing repository and we want to push it from the command line.

We'll run these two commands from inside our project:

• The first one adds a new remote to our Git repository
• The second command is going to push it up to GitHub

Remotes let Git know which third-party URLs you want to sync up with. Maybe I want to push my code to GitHub to communicate with my co-workers. Maybe I also want to be able to push up to Heroku ...