Building GitHub integrations with webhooks and REST
Facilitators: @bswinnerton, @janester, and @nronas
Chat Moderators: @gwestersf, @jovel, and @jpemberthy
Webhooks are valuable tools for powering real-time integrations and workflows in your project’s existing tools. This session will walk through an approach of building a webhook-powered application that acts on events as they take place on GitHub. You will also learn how to use the GitHub REST API through the Octokit SDK to call for additional resources after receiving an event.
📣 Prerequisites
- A GitHub account
- A working installation of Docker
- Some familiarity with coding (preferrably in ruby)
- Some familiarity with git
- Some familiarity with GitHub
📚 Resources
- GitHub Account Creation
- Create an Access Token
- Ruby-lang
- Git Cheat Sheet
- Docker installation
- Today's Slides
👩💻 Workshop
You'll find everything else you need for the workshop in workshop.md