Developer! Developer! Developer! East Anglia

DDD East Anglia

Cambridge, UK
Saturday 13 September 2014

GitHub Automation

GitHub has one of the best REST APIs you'll ever see. Pretty much any task in GitHub can be automated. Tired of updating code after a feature gets deprecated? Write a bot for that. Need to add the repository field to all your package.json files? Script it. You can even use GitHub as the backend for an entire application to take advantage of its built in collaboration features. This talk will take you through how to write you own GitHub automation code in JavaScript and give you some ideas on how to use your new-found powers for good.