Every GitHub repository can easily communicate with a web server whenever the repository is pushed. This communication is called a webhook. Webhooks are used for many reasons, including updating an external issue tracker, creating a backup mirror or triggering a continuous integration build.

1. How to Build a GitHub Webhook
with node.js
GitHub Webhooks
Every GitHub repository can easily communicate with a web server whenever
the repository is pushed. This communication is called a webhook. Webhooks
are used for many reasons, including updating an external issue tracker,
creating a backup mirror or triggering a continuous integration build.
Click here for information on how to set up webhooks on GitHub. For this
tutorial let’s set the webhook to port , with URL and secret . You will obtain a
GitHub personal access token as described in GitHub.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to listen to push events on GitHub through
the webhook,and then fetch modified content with Node.js.
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2. The Webhook
The first thing you will do is listen to push events by using node-github-hook:
Fetching Content
You will use octonode to fetch file contents and return the contents as a
Node.js in the callback.
(Note: In this example Underscore.string is used to extract the branch, after
the rightmost slash.)
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