🐱 5 Awesome GitHub Apps — Backups, Animations and More

Lately I’ve discovered that you can install apps for your GitHub. There is a variety of GitHub apps out there in the marketplace.

Today I will tell you about five apps I find awesome. Usually they have free tiers or are free completely!

🛡️ GitProtect —Automated GitHub Backups

As I wrote in my previous article there are situations when your repositories on GitHub can be removed. GitProtect is a solution that helps protect your repositories, especially when GitHub is your single source of code. In the times of hacking attempts aimed at developers it’s good to have backups of your repositories.

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🎨 Visual Source — Visualize Your Code Commits

Maybe you’ve seen these beautiful animations where the history of your git commits is visualized to look almost like a living, evolving organism? I’ve found a GitHub app that does exactly that…