GitHub is a vast open-source community. You can explore GitHub to find interesting repositories, topics, code, people, and organizations that can inspire your own work, or support your own learning.
Once you've found something that interests you, you can:
- Star
the repository or topic, so you can easily find it again later.
- Follow
people or organizations, so you can stay updated on their activities.
- Download
useful repositories or code, and customize it for your own use.
- Contribute
to another user's project, by opening a pull request.
Once you star repositories or follow people, you will see updates on their activities on your
personal dashboard
.
- Navigate to
Explore GitHub
.
- Browse popular repositories and topics.
- Click
Star
next to repositories and topics that interest you, so you can easily find them again later.
- Navigate to your
stars page
to see all your starred repositories and topics.
- Navigate to
https://github.com/search
.
- Type a keyword or query into the search bar. For example, try "how to build a webpage", or "skills-course". For more detailed information on how to search GitHub for specific topics, repositories, or code, see "
About searching on GitHub
."
- Use the left sidebar to filter the results. For example, to browse all repositories in the "skills-course" topic, search "skills-course", then filter by "Topic".
- Star the repositories that match your interests.
Following people and organizations on GitHub is another good way to stay updated on projects and topics that interest you.
- Navigate to the user's profile page.
- Under the user's profile picture, click
Follow
.
- Optionally, to unfollow a user, click
Unfollow
.
-
Navigate to the organization page you want to follow.
-
In the top-right corner, click
Follow
.
-
Optionally, to unfollow an organization, click
Unfollow
.
- GitHub has a great support community where you can ask for help and talk to people from around the world. Join the conversation on
GitHub Community
.
- In the next tutorial, "
Downloading files from GitHub
," you'll learn how to download files from GitHub for your own use, and learn the differences between downloading, cloning, and forking repositories.