Building automations with GitHub Apps and GraphQL

Facilitators: @ahoglund and @tarebyte

Chat Moderators: @jovel, @jpemberthy, and @xuorig

Prerequisites • Resources

Have you ever wondered how to make cool robots that can help manage repositories? This session will show you how to bootstrap a GitHub App and get it running in under one hour. Speakers @tarebyte and @ahoglund will walk you through selecting composite resources from the GraphQL API and generating a starter application in JavaScript with authentication. ## :mega: Prerequisites Please have the following installed in your workstation: - [Git & GitHub](https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/set-up-git#setting-up-git) - [NPM & Node](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm) - [Zoom](https://zoom.us/download) ## :books: Resources - On using [GitHub Tags](https://developer.github.com/v3/git/tags/) - Intro on [GitHub Apps](https://developer.github.com/apps/about-apps/) - Intro on [GraphQL](https://graphql.org/learn/) and [GraphQL in GitHub](https://developer.github.com/v4/)