GitHub Copilot is a great tool. It increases your coding efficiency and can help you make your code better, but it also has some neat hidden features you might not have known about. In this blog post, I’ll share three practical tips for using Copilot. These tips are intended to provide new ideas and insights that can enhance your daily experience with Copilot.
Copilot is a tool that …
As your codebase grows and more people contribute to it, it becomes increasingly important to maintain quality and prevent bugs from slipping into production. This is where the GitHub Pull Request Gate comes in.
A GitHub Pull Request Gate is a set of automated checks that are run on a pull request before it is merged into the main codebase. These checks can include tests, code quality checks, security scans, …
In my last blog post, I gave a short review of a GitHub tool called gitStream. Now it is time to deep diver and see what secrets it beholds and how it can improve our code review process.
gitStream is a free tool (for small teams) at GitHub developed by LinearB and it can be installed directly from GitHub market place. Tool can be installed for one repo, specific …
Working code review process is a cornerstone of a modern software development. Developers should not push their changes directly into test or production environment without proper code review by another developer. The problem with code review is, that they create a tollgate for developers which slows down the code deployment process. Usually other developers are busy with their own work and they don’t have time to immediately review the code …
Want to find potential security vulnerabilities from your code base? Or want to see an impact of code changes to dependencies before you merge a pull request? If you answered yes then keep reading.
GitHub offers security features, like code scanning for private repositories under GitHub Advanced Security license. This option is only available for GitHub Enterprise users. You can test these features in public repositories (because they are free …
GitHub announced new Projects Beta, that is new version of the “old” GitHub Projects. Projects Beta (later PB) aims to solve the issue that Microsoft is currently having with GitHub and that is the lack of project management tools. Sadly this tool is not the complete solution, but it sure has some interesting features.
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Github Actions is a new way to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment for Github projects. Pipelines are called workflows and they are written in everybodys favorite language: YAML. Editing can be done directly in github.com and Github provides nice set of templates to get started.
Github Actions provides nice amount of build time for free. Total of 2000 minutes per month. Pricing has some weird aspect though, the 2000 …