Application development

Application development encompasses the processes, methodologies, and technologies used to create software applications. Whether you’re building a mobile app, a web app, or a desktop application, find insights and tutorials to help you at any level. From seasoned professionals to enthusiastic beginners, our content aims to inspire and equip you with the knowledge and tools to create powerful, efficient, and user-friendly applications.

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Insider newsletter digest: Cook up a controller with GitHub Copilot

Whether you’re coding up a storm or cooking up code, building a controller function with AI is your secret sauce to a flavorful app.

Build code security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game

Learn to find and fix security issues while having fun with Secure Code Game, now with new challenges focusing on JavaScript, Python, Go, and GitHub Actions!

Insider newsletter digest: Build from anywhere

Explore the August 2023 edition, featuring easy tips and tricks for GitHub Mobile.

Getting started with edge computing

Edge computing practitioners answer your questions about when and why to build applications at the edge.

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Implementing a robust digital identity

How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity?

Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7

At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.

Presenting CodeNaija: A hackathon hosted by Andela and GitHub’s Blacktocats

CodeNaija is a GitHub-led Hackathon where we hosted over 100 software engineers for over 30 hours of learning and passionate discussions about technology.

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Vulcanizer: a library for operating Elasticsearch

Vulcanizer is a Go library for interacting with an Elasticsearch cluster. Its goal is to provide a high-level API to help with common tasks associated with operating an Elasticsearch cluster such as querying health status of the cluster, migrating data off of nodes, updating cluster settings, and more.