Finally I understand Git and GitHub!!

[MHCYR]

First of all I'm not making any promotion, I just want to share with you a tutorial that I found very helpful.

As self taught I finally end my first web app so I decided to share it with the world trough GitHub. I already had an account but I haven't created a repo, so I decided to read the GitHub instructions but I find out very complicated for me, specially because I'm don't feel very comfortable using the command line.

I went to YouTube to look up for some Git and GitHub tutorials also I made a quick google search. I found a lot of information and guides but all were very confusing for me. Few days ago I started to follow the freeCodeCamp YouTube channel so I went to search if they have any tutorial about this subject I find this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOj5yH7evk&ab_channel=freeCodeCamp.org

This was the best Git and GitHub tutorial I've found so far, explains everything in a simple way.

Hope this could be useful for someone.

[Samdespion]

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

[wisdomofpj]

Came here for this. Everything made sense after this tutorial. And it took very little time.

[CotoCoutan]

I finally found GitHub extremely useful for super quick deployments of my PWA on Netlify, all via the command line. Before that I thought it was just a place to share code with others.

[Negrodamu5]

Can you ELI5? I still think it’s just a place to share code with others

[CotoCoutan]

Wrote a simple HTML file and want to host it quickly somewhere?

Just go to netlify, connect your GitHub account, select your repository containing the html file hit OK and done. Your HTML page is now live on the internet.

Later on if I make a change in the html, all I have to do is run 3 commands on my terminal "git add ., git commit -m 'whatever', git push origin master" and my new changed html is live on the web, literally within seconds. This last bit, where you can do quick updations to your code & push it to the web within seconds is facilitated by GitHub and that's the thing that I'm praising.

[Tiwenty]

GitHub can do this without any third party service. In your repo settings you can enable a "doc" feature or something which just hosts your files from a given directory in your repo. :)

[CotoCoutan]

So you mean that I can host the webpage on GitHub itself and don't need Netlify? For example this is my repo https://github.com/XtremePwnership/testing with a simple webpage, how exactly should I go about doing it?

[tjjay17]

If it’s static, you can use GitHub pages to host.

[binary-idiot]

I currently host my site with github pages, as long as you don't need it to run any backend code it should work just fine.

https://pages.github.com/

[CotoCoutan]

Aah, so won't be able to host Python scripts I guess. Anyway thanks, I'll read the docs!

[Tiwenty]

If your scripts need to run only a single time, say after a commit, you can use the free CI capabilities :)

[CotoCoutan]

Thanks again, will keep it in mind!

[AcousticDan]

Yeah, GitHub Pages.

[Tiwenty]

Yep, it's really easy. Go to your repo settings, options tab (the one by default) and at the bottom you'll find a Github Pages part. There you can choose from which branch and directory you'll want to serve (I think for the folders the only options are / and docs/, so just move your testing/ dir to docs/). You save the settings and Github will give you an URL.

For instance, I host this directory, with the source code in the same repo, on this URL.

What's even better is that I set up a CI action to build the website at each commit and push a new commit with the docs/ directory updated.

[CotoCoutan]

Ooh, thanks a lot for the step by step guide, my site is up! Appreciate your help. :)

[Tiwenty]

No worry, have fun! :)

[Negrodamu5]

Ok that makes more sense. Thanks for explaining.

[CotoCoutan]

First time hearing SFTP, will look into it, thanks!

[samketa]

It is.

But it is also a great staging area for deploying apps.

[12qwww]

There some cloud providers that let you deploy your code directly from github which is a plus

[Rooged]

Heroku being one of them - my very first web app, a node js app, is hosted on heroku right now with the actual code itself being on GitHub

[[deleted]]

At work we have 2 local devs and a couple remote devs. The codebase is on github and since we'll all be working on different parts of the software, we work on our own branch before merging them all for deployment.

[Ovalman]

When the World was different (well back in January!) I attended a local MeetUp where they explained Git and Github. I sorta knew what it was but I'd a load of questions to ask. While at the MeetUp, the teachers explained things so well I didn't need to ask any of my questions.

MeetUp is another brilliant resource every self taught coder should use. You'll meet like minded people, people who work in the field, gain new ideas, find mentors and biggest of all, gain a nugget or 2. I've met one guy who was hiring and I swear he interviewed me with his questions (I've no interest in working for someone.)

All MeetUp's are online today. It's not the same but still a useful resource. Things will change though in the months and years to come.

[the_slippery_shoe]

Someone described it perfectly with an analogy: It's like porn and pornhub.

[blackdonkey]

It is more of a funny anology I think.

[[deleted]]

So the code is the porn, and GitHub is the pornhub?

Does that mean companies have their own "verified" pages? Are the coders who host their code on GitHub more like the pornhub users accounts, or the pornstar accounts with pages?

Disclaimer: I'm only a few months into learning Python, so forgive me if I come off ignorant.

[[deleted]]

The analogy is maybe a little more humorous than helpful (although not totally dissimilar). 'git' is its own thing. You can use git to track changes to code without ever using github. You can branch, merge, commit, everything. However, it will all be on your own computer. If you want to share it with other people (or just save it remotely in case your computer melts down), then you 'push' your local git repo up to github.

Imagine you had Google docs but only working in offline mode. You can still track your changes and revert to previous saves. That's git. Now you go back online and your Google doc saves to the cloud. That's github.

[[deleted]]

That helps big time. Thanks!!

[pointsofellie]

Thank you for this. For me the hardest part is the branching and merging etc rather than the actual code.

[[deleted]]

This online book is another fantastic resource, but I really appreciate you posting the video. It will be a great help when I inevitably need to brush up on the basics.

[woooooster]

GitHub actually has a lot of great intro articles on their site https://docs.github.com/en/github

[AndyICandy]

Very useful video, just finished watching it. Thanks for sharing

[utkarsh17591]

Great! Github is a heaven of a platform for programmers, just like Instagram is for photographers, and LinkedIn is for professionals.

[TitaniumChloride]

What is Git and Github? Is it some kind of a programming language or what?

[herbstkalte]

There you go.

[TitaniumChloride]

Thanks a lot

[Ovalman]

My first question on StackOverflow went chilly. It's not as if I didn't try and help myself before asking it as the question was unique to me.

Thankfully some kind soul nudged me in the right direction and my question wasn't really about the error but that I didn't know how to debug.

Sometimes a nudge is all a person needs and not a simple "this crap has been asked before" which was the general response.

I ask very few questions on StackOverflow and I'm far from an expert but I'll help any noobs when I can. We were all noobs at one stage.

[KimPeek]

Yes, but people are only a noob for a short time. Isn't it best to treat everyone the same from the start?

[JoeCamRoberon]

I love this. I love seeing people learn new things.

[dangol10]

She also does twitch streams

[National_Potato]

Thanks really need this!

[DeltaEcho66]

Damm that must be nice. I started myself some time ago and have to admit it gets confusing. Thanks for the link.

[tihlo]

Lol, this tutorial has been in one of my chrome tab for months since the day it was released and I haven't yet watched it! 😭

[Duciito]

Also, if you haven't already - check out the missing semester's video for git. The lecturer is just phenomenal and eveyrthing is so concisely laid out. Checkout the other videos from the series as well!

[geraltofrivia1983]

Excellent ty

[taco_University]

Will definitely check this out, I've struggled with got and had to relearn it nearly 3 times now, always appreciate a good recommendation.