Setting up a GitHub Application

These steps are very general, you do not actual need any code to setup a github application. What is needed is the url's where the application will be hosted.

1. First step, click on your profile, and choose settings, then click Developer Settings.

2. Three different options should then be available to you, you want to be sure the GitHub Application option is selected. Go ahead and select the create New GitHub App button at the top right side of the screen.

3. You will need to provide your password at this point.

4. At this point you will be provided with a form, there are a few items that are required in order to register the application.

The required items are:

• GitHub App name - it is what it says the name you want to call your application
• Homepage URL - a link to the GitHub repository or the homepage of the application
• Webhook URL - a way to communicate between GitHub and a server you are hosting

In this demonstration I will not show you how to setup a webhook url because I have not yet created an application that needs it.

5. As mentioned earlier however, a webhook url is required even if I don't care to utilize it. So we will use https://smee.io/ to generate an appropriate url. If you ever wanted to add a server that has extra functionality it is still a possibility.