githubAnalytics

A web application with insights into Github data. Gives data of popular repositories on github.

Setup

• see the package.json
• type npm install
• type bower install
• request a Personal access token as described below
• open console type gulp serve

Requesting a personal access token

• First, go to your GitHub profile settings and define a Personal access token (https://github.com/settings/tokens)
• Then, add the token to the environment variables (eg: export TOKEN_GITHUB_DOT_COM=token_string)
• Now you can get the token like that: process.env.TOKEN_GITHUB_DOT_COM

var GitHubClient = require('../libs/GitHubClient.js').GitHubClient;

var githubCliDotCom = new GitHubClient({
  baseUri:"https://api.github.com",
  token: process.env.TOKEN_GITHUB_DOT_COM
});

• if you use GitHub.com, baseUri has to be set with https://api.github.com

Use the GitHub client

For example, you want to get the information about a user: (see https://developer.github.com/v3/users/#get-a-single-user)

var githubCliDotCom = new GitHubClient({
  baseUri:"https://api.github.com",
  token: process.env.TOKEN_GITHUB_DOT_COM
});

var searchString = "q=stars:>1&s=stars&type=Repositories";
githubCliDotCom.getData({
         path: `/search/repositories?${searchString}`
       })
      .then(response => {
        console.log(response.data);
     });

Recipes (and features)

More samples to come Will be implementing oauth2.0 login so as to remove dependency on manually requesting Personal Access Token every time

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