You're Not Using GitHub's Best Feature

Using GitHub for more than just version controlling your precious code

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There’s one feature of GitHub you’re probably not using that is extremely valuable.

Searching in GitHub.

I’ve found it to be useful in two types of scenarios that occur often:

1. Trying to figure out how to use a library developed by someone else.

   1. Search all of GitHub to see how others utilized the library.
      

2. Trying to resolve an error originating from a library.

   1. Search the error message in the library’s GitHub repository. Issues usually have comments with fixes and helpful information.

Pro Tip: Learn to use the advanced search feature in GitHub to more quickly find relevant results.