GitHub offers many features that help the developer workflow. One of them is webhooks, the other one is integrations.

Webhooks

Webhooks allow external services to be pinged when certain events happen in the repository, like when code is pushed, a fork is made, a tag was created or deleted.

When an event happens, GitHub sends a POST request to the URL we told it to use.

A common usage of this feature is to ping a remote server to fetch the latest code from GitHub when we push an update from our local computer.

We push to GitHub, GitHub tells the server we pushed, the server pulls from GitHub.

Integrations

You can use 3rd party integrations that improve the developer experience or provide a service to you.

For example you can setup a test runner to run the tests automatically every time you push some new commits, using TravisCI.

You can setup Continuous Integration using CircleCI.

You might create a Codeclimate integration that analyzes the code and provides a report of technical debt and test coverage.

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	GitHub issues
2:	Social coding
3:	Pull requests
4:	Project management
5:	Comparing changes
6:	▶︎ Webhooks and integrations
7:	What happens after pushing
8:	Create a GitHub account
9:	Using GitHub desktop
10:	Using Git in VS Code
11:	A developer's introduction to GitHub
12:	How to set up Git and GitHub from Zero
13:	How to authenticate to GitHub using username and password
14:	How to make your first Pull Request on GitHub
15:	Benefits of using Git (and GitHub) as a solo dev