GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.

Learn how to add a GitHub repository to VS Code as well as how to install a handy extension to manage pull requests and issues.

This Git and GitHub tutorial for beginners teaches how to use these source code version control tools that are at the heart of modern app development.

Git is also the version control standard for GitHub and other source code management systems, and it is widely used with within devops to implement CI/CD.