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Want to learn how to code? Get hands-on with GitHub APIs in JavaScript to manage repositories, branches, commits, and deployment, and confidently build skills with an integrated demo application.

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GitHub is one of the most popular code management platforms for software engineers. Developers can use Git to create and edit both personal and shared repositories, control access, and fork projects into various branches. These changes are approved by collaborators and merged back into the main branch before a final release.

This course will introduce you to various GitHub APIs and their endpoints. You’ll learn about authentication and integration with a GitHub developer account to leverage the APIs to manage the code. Next, you’ll learn to manage repositories, branches, commits, projects, collaborators, and deployment. 

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build a demo application integrated with GitHub APIs using React framework. The course provides hands-on experience in integrating GitHub API into applications for version control of assets/ managing code repositories or projects if needed. You can integrate the API in any language framework of your choice.

Manage Your Codebase with the GitHub APIs in JavaScript

# Overview

A **GitHub release** is a deployable iteration of software packaged with binary files and release notes. It acts the same way as an application update. The binary files help users find a specific version of the application. The release notes include all the details of upgrades or features added to the product in that release. Releases are based on Git tags denoting a point in the repository’s history. These tags are essential in defining a release. The tag date will vary from the release date if they are created on different dates.


# Create a release

A user must have `push` access to the repository to create a release. The table below shows the parameters in the body to create a release.

Request Parameters

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In case of successful execution of the above code, it will return the response code `201`.

Let's look at a brief explanation of the above code:


* **Line 1:** We define the URL of the endpoint.
* **Lines 8–10:** We define the required body parameters.
* **Lines 18–25:** We define the `async` function that will call the defined endpoint.
    * **Line 21:** In case of a successful request, the response of the API call is printed by invoking the `printResponse` function.
    * **Line 23:** Otherwise, the error is printed by calling the `printErrors` function.
* **Line 27:** We call the `async` function.

Learn and practice the functionalities of release in the GitHub API.

Parameters	Type	Description
`tag_name`	String	The name of the tag
`target_commitish`	String	The value calculated based on where the Git tag is created from
`name`	String	The release name
`body`	String	The description of the tag’s contents
`draft`	Boolean	This is `true` if draft creation is enabled and `false` otherwise
`prerelease`	Boolean	This is `true` if the release is identified as prerelease. It is `false` if the release is identified as a full release.
`discussion_category_name`	String	The discussion of the category linked to the release, if specified
`generate_release_notes`	Boolean	This is `true` if the name and body of the release is to be automatically generated `false` otherwise

Introduction

Code Management

Collaboration

Deployment

APIs Integration in React

Conclusion

Release

Overview

Create a release

Request Parameters