Working with the Github API for the first time! A beginners tale …

As a part-time, full stack software engineering student at Lambda School, we arrived at our first build project. In simple terms, find a project you like and sign up. Once another student sign’s up, collaborate and use the skills acquired in the first 8 weeks to meet the MVP assigned.

I decided to sign up for Github User Breakdown, a marketing page that ‘markets’ an app that, when you search a Github user name, data is returned on that user via the Github API. Quickly, my co-dev and I were on board and ready to work…