Let's build a GitHub (Pro)bot
GitHub Apps (formerly Integrations) were launched earlier this year. Apps are first-class citizen in GitHub which means they act on their own behalf, just like a normal GitHub user. In GitHub.com you can visually distinguish apps (bots) from normal users by the “bot” suffix that GitHub adds after the app name. For example, this how Greenkeeper’s bot looks like: GitHub lets the app subscribe to certain events (aka webhooks). When one of those events is triggered, it will send an HTTP POST payload to a pre-configured URL. A CI service, for example, will need to subscribe to “Push” events in order to run your tests whenever to push new code. ...