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GitHub

GitHub has been my choice as a code repository for quite some time now. I trust it enough considering it got purchased by Microsoft.

Learning Git

If you are new to Git, I recommend a Udemy course I found that quite thoroughally explains Git.

Git Complete: The definitive, step-by-step guide to Git by Jason Taylor, John Myers

GitHub Access Token

In later tutorials, we will be using GitHub's GitActions to automate a lot of tasks for us. To do so, we will need a personal access token for GitHub. To generate one, do the following:

Go to settings

Settings

Scroll to the bottom and select "Developer settings"

Developer Settings

From here we want to create a classic token

Classic Token

Configure the token with the following

GitActions Configuration

Save the token in a secure place, we will use this when automating builds.