A sample README for all your GitHub projects.

sampleREADME.md

INSERT GRAPHIC HERE (include hyperlink in image)

Repository Title Goes Here

Subtitle or Short Description Goes Here

ideally one sentence

include terms/tags that can be searched

Badges will go here

• build status
• issues (waffle.io maybe)
• devDependencies
• npm package
• coverage
• slack
• downloads
• gitter chat
• license
• etc.

• For more on these wonderful badgers badges, refer to badgerbadgerbadger.

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• Most people will glance at your README, maybe star it, and leave
• Ergo, people should understand instantly what your project is about based on your repo

Tips

• HAVE WHITE SPACE
• MAKE IT PRETTY
• GIFS ARE REALLY COOL

GIF Tools

• Use Recordit to create quicks screencasts of your desktop and export them as GIFs.
• For terminal sessions, there's ttystudio which also supports exporting GIFs.

Recordit

ttystudio

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Table of Contents (Optional)

If your README has a lot of info, section headers might be nice.

• Installation
• Features
• Contributing
• Team
• FAQ
• Support
• License

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Example (Optional)

// code away!

let generateProject = project => {
  let code = [];
  for (let js = 0; js < project.length; js++) {
    code.push(js);
  }
};

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Installation

• All the code required to get started
• Images of what it should look like

Clone

• Clone this repo to your local machine using https://github.com/fvcproductions/SOMEREPO

Setup

• If you want more syntax highlighting, format your code like this:

update and install this package first

$ brew update
$ brew install fvcproductions

now install npm and bower packages

$ npm install
$ bower install

• For all the possible languages that support syntax highlithing on GitHub (which is basically all of them), refer here.

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Features

Usage (Optional)

Documentation (Optional)

Tests (Optional)

• Going into more detail on code and technologies used
• I utilized this nifty Markdown Cheatsheet for this sample README.

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Contributing

To get started...

Step 1

• Option 1

  • 🍴 Fork this repo!

• Option 2

  • 👯 Clone this repo to your local machine using https://github.com/joanaz/HireDot2.git

Step 2

• HACK AWAY! 🔨🔨🔨

Step 3

• 🔃 Create a new pull request using https://github.com/joanaz/HireDot2/compare/.

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Team

Or Contributors/People

FVCproductions	FVCproductions	FVCproductions
github.com/fvcproductions	github.com/fvcproductions	github.com/fvcproductions

• You can just grab their GitHub profile image URL
• You should probably resize their picture using ?s=200 at the end of the image URL.

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FAQ

• How do I do specifically so and so?
  • No problem! Just do this.

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Support

Reach out to me at one of the following places!

• Website at fvcproductions.com
• Twitter at @fvcproductions
• Insert more social links here.

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Donations (Optional)

• You could include a Gratipay link as well.

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License

• MIT license
• Copyright 2015 © FVCproductions.