{"id":604,"date":"2017-09-26T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.softgridcomputers.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2020-10-25T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T12:27:23","slug":"this-is-why-github-is-important-for-web-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softgridcomputers.com\/blog\/this-is-why-github-is-important-for-web-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GitHub is important for Web Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you are starting out as a web developer, it can sometimes be overwhelming to witness all the various platforms and the tools and the different languages that you are exposed to. However, there are not many who feel that GitHub is perhaps one of the most essential platforms for web developers<\/a> <\/strong>who are starting out. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GitHub was launched in early 2008<\/strong> and it is essentially a platform which provides web developers with best practices<\/strong> which can prove to be a very important tool-set in equipping you to put your work out there and at the same time, know what the different tools are, available at your disposal. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to this, GitHub<\/strong> is also a storage area for a developer\u2019s projects, giving one space for storing their files and also has something called as version control<\/strong>, which allows you to not just store files but also track them on a real-time basis<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advantages of GitHub<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are working on your version control, there are few platforms which have the kind of abilities that GitHub<\/strong> does. It doesn\u2019t matter where you are developing; whether it is in Ruby or JavaScript or Python<\/strong>, you require a good version control work-flow and GitHub makes that entire process much easier by providing you with a ready-made tool-set<\/strong> that equips you to do just that. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interface<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Git is perhaps one of the most important tools out there, but it can only be used on Terminal, which is more often than not, an extremely daunting place to start from, especially if you are a new developer. Viewing logs and differentials between commits can sometimes be a very difficult thing to do. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best part of GitHub is that it is intuitive and perhaps one of the best providers of a powerful graphical interface for the Git versioning system. It has made the viewing of commits very easily manageable through the repositories that you can quickly set up. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Providing the path to collaboration<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since GitHub<\/strong> <\/a>is primarily a collaboration platform<\/strong>, it provides a bunch of collaboration tools which makes it easy for developers to work together. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n