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In this video.

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I'll do my best to keep this quick.

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I want to talk about why you should use GitHub or know how to use it.

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And not just the basic reason of backing up your code or being able to collaborate.

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Although obviously that's really important part of using GitHub and one of the main reasons people want

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to use it.

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But there are other reasons, especially if you're part of the, I guess greater developer community,

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things like if you're looking for a job down the line or trying to meet potential mentors, there are

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other reasons.

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So collaboration is 100% one of the most important reasons to use GitHub.

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If we take a look at some projects, I mean, you can see there are certain repositories that have 100

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plus different contributors working on this same project.

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So that's pretty amazing.

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And there are repos with thousands and thousands of contributors.

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But the first reason I want to focus on that, maybe a slightly different than just a generic collaboration

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is good is open source projects.

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If you're not familiar with the term or need a recap, open source projects are projects where the code

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base is available, not just typically not just to look at, but also to make contributions to to fix

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bugs, to discuss with a community, a greater community of people, usually the users of the product.

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Anyway, GitHub has become the home of open source projects on the Internet today.

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And so if you ever plan on working on open source projects or contributing or starting your own, GitHub

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is a place to do it currently.

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And if you have never made contributions, you might want to consider making open source contributions,

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especially if you plan on looking for a job at some point.

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It's great proof that you know what you're doing.

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So just a couple of open source projects, things like react very, very, very popular tool, JavaScript,

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library, it's all on GitHub and lots and lots of people have made contributions.

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So it's not just the people on the official React team at Facebook.

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Same thing with TensorFlow, just to give another example.

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So machine learning framework 100, and that's how many people used it, almost 3000 contributors.

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And that brings me to the next point, which is GitHub can give you as a developer, it can give you

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exposure, it can give you I won't say notoriety, but if you do contribute to open source projects

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consistently, you are going to run into people and sort of make friends or at least GitHub friends

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because you're having conversations, you're you're talking about features and lines of code together.

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Additionally, employers will often look at your GitHub profile, so I'll just show you one or two of

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those.

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This is my friend Kali who was recently looking for a job.

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You can actually see her contributions here stopped when she got a job and started working on that job

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full time.

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But we've got things like her repository she's worked on.

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If I'm thinking about hiring her, I might go take a look at one of them.

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And what is this?

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Oh, this is like a marketing website for a concert series, and then we can take a look.

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Okay, so that's just a very simple demo of how, you know, your GitHub profile can act as a bit of

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a resume for your code so we can take a look at all our different projects.

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Similarly, here's another friend I can see recently just this In January, he contributed to material

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UI, a very popular large front end component library.

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And if I was thinking about hiring somebody and I saw that, you know, it's not an instant.

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Yes, but it's a good sign.

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And then the last reason that I'll list is that GitHub can help you stay up to date.

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It has some sort of vaguely social networking features.

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And if let's say you're a React developer, you can stay up to date on changes coming to the React project.

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You can stay sort of active in the conversation and learn more about when that next massive update is

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coming.

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That is going to change everything.

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You can even anticipate it.

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If you're active on GitHub, you can set up notifications and you can be the first to know anyway.

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For us, the main reason that it all comes back to is collaboration, getting our code up on GitHub.

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But these side effects are nice to being able to work on open source projects is great in general,

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but specifically, if you're looking for a job, it can be a great idea, a great sort of resume builder.

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You can gain exposure, you can meet mentors and just sort of have a presence in the coding world and

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you can stay up to date on repositories and upcoming changes.