This is the source code for @reporobot who lives on a server and interacts with repositories on behalf of Git-it. Git-it is a beginners adventure(!) for learning Git and GitHub, of the nodeschool.io series. Through a series of challenges, users learn the basics like committing, working with remotes, branching, forking, pushing, pulling and making pull requests. @reporobot brings fun, not so one-way times to the challenges like adding a collaborators, pulling changes and verifying pull requests to the learning experience.

Reporobot is built with Node.js, lives on a Digital Ocean Droplet and is deployed with maxogden/taco.

• There are two challenges in Git-it that need to be verified with the GitHub API instead of Git itself like the other challenges. A challenge on verifying @reporobot has been added as a collaborator and another verifying that the user submitted a pull request. @reporobot returns a true or false for each.

• In one challenge of Git-it, users are asked to add @reporobot as a collaborator. When they do @reporobot is notified via the GitHub email which sends a webhook via cloudmailin. Then it writes to the repository which creates an opportunity for the users to learn about pulling in changes and staying in sync.

• When users submit a pull request @reporobot verifies that the pull request is as expected. If it is not, it writes a comment on the pull request describing what was missing. If it is as expected, it merges the pull request.

• After a pull request is merged @reporobot adds that user to a list of users who have completed all of the challenges. From that list and a with a template, it rebuilds and pushes the index.html of jlord/patchwork (the repository Git-it users fork and pull request against) with the latest completer.

Busy robot.