Learning GitHub Packages

Course details

Almost every software developer uses dependencies to extend or accelerate the development process. GitHub Packages is a software package hosting service that allows you to host your software packages privately or publicly and use packages as dependencies in your projects. GitHub Packages combines your source code and packages in one place to provide integrated permissions management and billing, so you can centralize your software development on GitHub. In this course, instructor Carlos Solís explains how to use GitHub packages to create and distribute secure and reliable software packages. He shows how to work with GitHub tools, create automated workflows, and shares tips and tricks to monetize and build communities around your software package. If you’re a developer or DevOps engineer looking to create and host software packages using a more secure, reliable, and centralized platform, check out this course.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Create your own GitHub packages
02 - What you should know
03 - What are GitHub packages and why you should use them

1. Software Package Principles

04 - Creating your first module
05 - Create and configure a personal access token
06 - Setting up a package repository
07 - Package configuration
08 - Publish a package
09 - Installing your package
10 - Creating a distribution page

2. Create and Distribute Software Packages

11 - Private packages distribution
12 - Integrate GitHub Actions with packages
13 - How to choose your package license
14 - Delete and restore packages
15 - Challenge - Develop a workflow to publish on npm
16 - Solution - Develop a workflow to publish on npm

3. Best Practices with Packages

17 - Integration with multiple registries
18 - Releasing package versions

4. Build Communities around Packages

19 - Monetization options for packages
20 - Package analytics
21 - Collaborative work on GitHub

Conclusion

22 - Next steps

Learning GitHub Packages

Authors

Carlos Solís