Introducing octokit.js

10 Mar 2013

octokit.js is a JavaScript client that interacts with GitHub using their API. Try it out with the interactive demo!

Some unique features:

• works in a browser or in NodeJS
• uses Promises
• written in CoffeeScript
• Mocha unit tests that actually talk to GitHub (and run in the browser or commandline)
• Code Coverage using BlanketJS (that runs in the browser or commandline)
• supports Harmony Generators

API Support:

• all repo operations (including create/remove)
• Teams, Organizations, and Permissions
• eTags for caching results
• Notifications for rate limit changes
• Committing multiple files at once

Finding a test and coverage framework that works both in a browser and on the commandline was a bit challenging but I’ll return to that in another post.

This library also uses jQuery.ajax and jQuery.Deferred.