Do you know how to structure a project for GitHub?

Updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] 1 year ago. See history

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It is important when working in multiple projects to ensure consistent practices.

Structuring your repositories consistently makes your project feel professional, and makes it easier to work with as it is predictable.

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❌ Figure: Bad example – The folder containing the source code is called ‘trunk’ rather than ‘src’ + there is no 'docs' folder containing the important documents

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✅ Figure: Good example - All documentation is in the ‘docs’ folder, samples are in the ‘samples’ folder, and all the source code is under ‘src’

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