Develop

Version Control

Push your app to GitHub so every change is committed, backed up, and ready to deploy.

Commit your app to GitHub before making changes. This gives you a clean baseline to roll back to if anything goes wrong.

Install GitHub Desktop

Download GitHub Desktop and sign in with your GitHub account.

Add Your Project

  1. Click File → Add Local Repository
  2. Select your app folder (e.g. ~/apps/my-app)
  3. Click the "create a repository" link it offers
  4. Click Create Repository

Commit

  1. Type Initial commit in the summary box (bottom-left)
  2. Click Commit to master

Publish

  1. Click Publish repository (top of window)
  2. Check "Keep this code private"
  3. Click Publish Repository

Every future commit in GitHub Desktop pushes automatically.

Next Steps