react-preview

a GitHub App built with probot that bootstraps your repo with global settings.

How to Use

We will have be using two repos.

1. .github - holds all the global config to be used by every repo which will install the app.
2. repo-having-app - it's the repo on which we will install the github app.

Now this is clear, let's go ahead and set things up. The first time you do it, it will feel complicated so hang tight !!

• Create a repo named .github if it doesn't exist already.
• In the repo, create a folder named .github/ in repo root.
• Inside .github/ folder create a bootstrap.yml file.
• Put this code in the bootstrap.yml.

labels:
    - name: bug
      color: CC0000
    - name: feature
      color: 336699

The bootstrap.yml will have the shared config. The above steps were one time only. Phew !!

Next we have to configure the repo so it can get bootstrapped.

• Install the github app on your repo.
• In the repo create bootstrap.yml file inside .github folder.
• Put this code in the bootstrap.yml.

_extends: .github

Here we have specify that config has to be read from the .github repo. If you want some configs different for the particular repo mention it after _extends: .github line.

Setup for Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the bot
npm start

See docs/deploy.md if you would like to run your own instance of this app.