JS GitHub App

This app is meant to serve as an application to help you onboard to the GitHub ecosystem and start using GitHub Webhooks & Apps.

Getting Started

Initial Project Setup

• Clone/Fork this repo
• Install dependencies

yarn

• Run the app

yarn start

Connecting to GitHub (manual approach)

• Create a new public repository at https://github.com/new
• Visit https://smee.io/ and click on Start a new Channel and note the URL
• Create a new GitHub App - https://github.com/settings/apps/new
• Give it a distinct name and description (prefix your LDAP)
• Set Homepage URL = http://localhost:5000/
• Set User authorization callback URL = http://localhost:5000/authenticate/
• Check the checkbox for Request user authorization (OAuth) during installation
• Set Webhook URL = <SMEE_URL>
• Select the Radio Button for Enable SSL verification
• Under permissions, give Read & Write permissions for Pull Requests
• Under Subscribe to Events, check Pull Request
• Generate and Download the Private key, move it to your app folder on local machine and name it ./private/gh-app.key
• Hit Save Changes

Now you should be redirected to the App Settings -

• Under the General tab on the left, find out your App ID

• Append this App ID to User authorization callback URL, for instance, https://localhost:5000/authenticate/40221

• Hit Save Changes

• Go to the Install tab and install the application on only your repository.

• If you were redirected to GitHub Home Page, your app installation was successful.

• Open a new terminal window and navigate to where you checked out this repo and activate virual environment as above - source venv/bin/activate

• Run ./bin/start_smee - this will forward all events to your app.

See it in action

• Go ahead and create a new Pull Request in the repository you just added the webhook to
• Voila! A new comment should be added to it.

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