Build a full stack fitness application with GitHub Copilot in 40 minutes

Welcome to a custom Copilot workshop prepared by the GitHub’s Expert Service team!

This workshop involves several technology stacks, therefore it is essential that you need to meet prerequisites as outlined in the prerequisites getting started if you want to follow along. Otherwise, please follow along and listen to the GitHub Expert Service team's instructor demo to see how it works in practice.

📘 NOTE: This workshop will be conducted through Codespace, but there are steps in this repository to create the app outside of codespaces.

Objectives and key takeaways

Objectives

Walk through a real-world use case:

• Building a fitness tracker app from end to end
• Create a full stack of technologies for the infrastructure, frontend, and backend
• Using the latest GitHub Copilot features

Key takeaways

• Build a full stack application with GitHub Copilot using exercises and instructions that you can take with you
• Experience the coolest, latest GitHub Copilot features, including Copilot and Copilot Chat
• Learn different concepts in GitHub Copilot and best practices for effectively leveraging Copilot in a variety of scenarios

Without further ado, let's get started.

Table of Contents

1. The OctoFit Tracker app story
2. Prerequisites and a setup of the development environment
3. Getting started - app frontend and backend creation
4. Let's build some beautiful front end
5. The OctoFit Tracker database and app backend creation
6. Populate the database with sample data
7. Using the Codespace endpoint to access the Django REST Framework
8. What's next?
9. 🔥 REFERENCE - Troubleshooting guide and FAQs