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GitHub vs repl.it: What are the differences?

GitHub is a widely-used web-based platform for version control, collaboration, and hosting of software projects using Git. repl.it, on the other hand, is an online development environment that enables users to write, compile, and share code in various programming languages directly from the browser. Let's explore the key differences between them.

  1. Code Hosting and Version Control: GitHub is primarily used for hosting and managing code repositories, offering powerful version control features. It allows developers to collaborate on code, track changes, and merge different branches seamlessly. On the other hand, repl.it focuses more on providing an integrated development environment (IDE) with the ability to run code directly in the browser.

  2. Social Coding and Collaboration: GitHub has a thriving community of developers and fosters collaboration through features like pull requests, issues, and discussions. It provides a platform for open-source projects to flourish and encourages developers to contribute and share their work. repl.it, while offering some collaboration features, is more focused on individual coding and learning experiences.

  3. Language and Platform Support: GitHub has support for a wide range of programming languages and is platform-agnostic, making it suitable for various software projects. It supports both personal and organizational accounts with the ability to create private or public repositories. repl.it, on the other hand, is designed to support rapid prototyping and learning, offering a simplified environment with support for multiple languages.

  4. Deployment and Hosting: GitHub allows for easy deployment and hosting of websites through its GitHub Pages feature, making it convenient for showcasing projects. repl.it also offers online deployment but focuses more on providing a temporary environment for testing and experimentation rather than long-term hosting.

  5. Integrated Development Environment (IDE): repl.it is known for its all-in-one development platform that provides a cloud-based IDE where developers can write, run, and debug code directly in the browser. GitHub, while offering some code editing capabilities, is primarily focused on managing and collaborating on code repositories.

  6. Educational Focus: repl.it is popular among educators and learners due to its simplicity and ease of use. It provides a platform for teaching and learning programming concepts and offers features like multiplayer coding, interactive courses, and code sharing. GitHub, while used for educational purposes as well, is more oriented towards professional software development and open-source contributions.

In summary, GitHub shines as a robust platform for code hosting, collaboration, and version control with support for a wide range of languages and an extensive developer community. On the other hand, repl.it offers a simplified development environment with an integrated IDE, making it ideal for rapid prototyping and educational purposes.

Decisions about GitHub and Replit
Weverton Timoteo

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

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Weverton Timoteo

Using an inclusive language is crucial for fostering a diverse culture. Git has changed the naming conventions to be more language-inclusive, and so you should change. Our development tools, like GitHub and GitLab, already supports the change.

SourceLevel deals very nicely with repositories that changed the master branch to a more appropriate word. Besides, you can use the grep linter the look for exclusive terms contained in the source code.

As the inclusive language gap may happen in other aspects of our lives, have you already thought about them?

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Weverton Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 8 upvotes · 656.3K views

Out of most of the VCS solutions out there, we found Gitlab was the most feature complete with a free community edition. Their DevSecops offering is also a very robust solution. Gitlab CI/CD was quite easy to setup and the direct integration with your VCS + CI/CD is also a bonus. Out of the box integration with major cloud providers, alerting through instant messages etc. are all extremely convenient. We push our CI/CD updates to MS Teams.

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Gitlab as A LOT of features that GitHub and Azure DevOps are missing. Even if both GH and Azure are backed by Microsoft, GitLab being open source has a faster upgrade rate and the hosted by gitlab.com solution seems more appealing than anything else! Quick win: the UI is way better and the Pipeline is way easier to setup on GitLab!

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At DeployPlace we use self-hosted GitLab, we have chosen GitLab as most of us are familiar with it. We are happy with all features GitLab provides, I can’t imagine our life without integrated GitLab CI. Another important feature for us is integrated code review tool, we use it every day, we use merge requests, code reviews, branching. To be honest, most of us have GitHub accounts as well, we like to contribute in open source, and we want to be a part of the tech community, but lack of solutions from GitHub in the area of CI doesn’t let us chose it for our projects.

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Pros of GitHub
Pros of Replit
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    Open source friendly
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    Easy source control
  • 1.3K
    Nice UI
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    Great for team collaboration
  • 867
    Easy setup
  • 504
    Issue tracker
  • 486
    Great community
  • 482
    Remote team collaboration
  • 451
    Great way to share
  • 442
    Pull request and features planning
  • 147
    Just works
  • 132
    Integrated in many tools
  • 121
    Free Public Repos
  • 116
    Github Gists
  • 112
    Github pages
  • 83
    Easy to find repos
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    It's free
  • 60
    Easy to find projects
  • 56
    Network effect
  • 49
    Extensive API
  • 43
    Organizations
  • 42
    Branching
  • 34
    Developer Profiles
  • 32
    Git Powered Wikis
  • 30
    Great for collaboration
  • 24
    It's fun
  • 23
    Clean interface and good integrations
  • 22
    Community SDK involvement
  • 20
    Learn from others source code
  • 16
    Because: Git
  • 14
    It integrates directly with Azure
  • 10
    Newsfeed
  • 10
    Standard in Open Source collab
  • 8
    Fast
  • 8
    It integrates directly with Hipchat
  • 8
    Beautiful user experience
  • 7
    Easy to discover new code libraries
  • 6
    Smooth integration
  • 6
    Cloud SCM
  • 6
    Nice API
  • 6
    Graphs
  • 6
    Integrations
  • 6
    It's awesome
  • 5
    Quick Onboarding
  • 5
    Remarkable uptime
  • 5
    CI Integration
  • 5
    Hands down best online Git service available
  • 5
    Reliable
  • 4
    Free HTML hosting
  • 4
    Version Control
  • 4
    Simple but powerful
  • 4
    Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
  • 4
    Security options
  • 4
    Loved by developers
  • 4
    Uses GIT
  • 4
    Easy to use and collaborate with others
  • 3
    IAM
  • 3
    Nice to use
  • 3
    Ci
  • 3
    Easy deployment via SSH
  • 2
    Good tools support
  • 2
    Leads the copycats
  • 2
    Free private repos
  • 2
    Free HTML hostings
  • 2
    Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
  • 2
    Beautiful
  • 2
    Never dethroned
  • 2
    IAM integration
  • 2
    Very Easy to Use
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    All in one development service
  • 2
    Self Hosted
  • 2
    Issues tracker
  • 2
    Easy source control and everything is backed up
  • 1
    Profound
  • 6
    Less Complicated
  • 4
    Continuous Deployment
  • 2
    Github integration
  • 2
    Free base plan and Premium plan is cheap
  • 2
    Supports a Reasonable amount of languages
  • 1
    Editor extensions
  • 1
    Helpfull Community
  • 0
    Emmet support
  • 0
    Emmet support

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Cons of GitHub
Cons of Replit
  • 53
    Owned by micrcosoft
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    Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
  • 15
    Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
  • 10
    API scoping could be better
  • 8
    Only 3 collaborators for private repos
  • 3
    Limited featureset for issue management
  • 2
    GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
  • 2
    Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
  • 1
    No multilingual interface
  • 1
    Takes a long time to commit
  • 1
    Expensive
  • 2
    Limited Storage, CPU, Ram
  • 2
    Server cannot stay 24/7
  • 2
    Very Limited Database API
  • 2
    Poor support

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What are some alternatives to GitHub and Replit?
GitLab
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
Bitbucket
Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.
AWS CodeCommit
CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
SVN (Subversion)
Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.
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