Building GitHub Apps For Fun and Profit

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  • Open up app.yml in your favorite text editor. This is a one-time use creation spec or "manifest" – of course, App settings can be changed later at https://github.com/settings/apps.

  • Visit your App's page at https://github.com/apps/yourappname to start an installation process as before.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Now you should have a private key, App ID (found at the top of your app settings page, https://github.com/settings/apps/yourappname), and Installation ID (via API or in post-install URL like https://github.com/settings/installations/1234567). You can use these to form API requests, either manually, via one of the Octokit libraries, or even as an action.

  • github-apps-cheat-sheet

    A cheat sheet for GitHub Apps

  • probot

    🤖 A framework for building GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflow

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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