Probot: Build Your Assistant to Make Life Easier on GitHub
summary
Shows how to build a real GitHub App using Probot: scaffolding an app, writing handlers to auto-comment on new issues, add labels, close duplicates, and run checks on pull-request commit messages. Demonstrates local webhook tunneling with smee.io, running the scaffold’s unit tests, deploying to Glitch, configuring OAuth permissions and event subscriptions, editing a repo’s .github config, and the exact GitHub API calls used; the demo runs end-to-end with the checks and labels working.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:07Probot overview
- 3:53Building a Probot app
- 6:31Local setup and interactions
- 7:55Probot code structure
- 9:29Testing and validation
- 11:59Label management
- 13:04Repo-level config
- 14:48Commit convention checks
- 17:15GitHub permissions and events
- 20:03Production deployment
- 23:41Summary and resources
- 24:44Q&A
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