Github

GitHub is a social coding platform allowing developers to publicly or privately build code repositories and interact with other developers around these repositories--providing the ability to download or fork a repository, as well as contribute back, resulting in a collaborative environment for software development.

Github provides an excellent platform for API owners to engage with developers outside of a local API ecosystem. Developers are already actively pushing code and interacting on Github, making it a perfect opportunity for API owners. It is standard practice for API owners to establish Github repositories for all SDKs, starter projects and Platform Development Kits (PDK), as well as deploy Github Gists for actively displaying all code samples.

Beyond using Github for pushing code, as stated above in the self-service API registration building block, Github also provides a preferred account integration for API developers to use that provides opportunities for healthy social interactions amongst API ecosystem developers.