Version control, collaboration and open-source made easy

Anvil’s new GitHub integration is here to make development and collaboration more efficient than ever by allowing you to keep your Anvil app’s source code in a GitHub repository. Whether you’re collaborating with teammates or on open-source projects, you can store your source code on GitHub, make pull requests and use all of GitHub’s version control and collaboration tools. You don’t need to be a Git expert to collaborate using GitHub: Anvil takes care of keeping your app and GitHub repository in sync.

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Storing our Anvil apps in GitHub Enterprise means Anvil fits into our workflow: We can apply all our standard security requirements, attribution, code review, CI and CD - with the same tools that the rest of the business uses. Now we can continue leveraging Anvil to its highest potential.

Robert Steffan

Senior Capability And Tooling Manager, Vodafone

Streamlined development and collaboration

The Anvil GitHub integration fits neatly into your workflow. On Anvil’s Business Plan and above, you can create private repositories to store and manage Anvil code with the rest of your company’s codebase. Open issues, create pull requests, review changes and manage conflicts within GitHub. Anvil’s built-in version control tab lets you manage your repository and keep track of code changes from within your app.

The version control tab in the Anvil Editor

The version control tab in the Anvil Editor

Anvil’s new Github integration makes collaboration with other developers so much easier, especially if they’re not yet familiar with running git on their own machines.

Owen Campbell

Independent Consultant

Create and contribute to open-source projects

All Anvil users can connect to public repositories for free, so you can create and contribute to open-source projects. Publish your Anvil code on GitHub and share it with other Anvil developers, or open pull requests in other repositories to contribute to Anvil community projects. Show off your Anvil code on your GitHub profile and build a portfolio of your Anvil projects.

The Anvil Extras open-source project

The Anvil Extras open-source project

How does it work?

To get started with the GitHub integration, you’ll need to either save an app to a new GitHub repository or clone an existing repository into Anvil. No need to be a pro at Git to get started: all your changes will automatically be pushed to the repository, and other developers’ changes will show up live in your app.

Want to use Git but don’t want to use GitHub? No problem. Anvil supports other Git remotes as well.

Ready to get started? Check out our GitHub integration quickstart tutorial or dive right in and start building an app.

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More about Anvil

If you’re new here, welcome! Anvil is a platform for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. No need to wrestle with JS, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL and all their frameworks – just build it all in Python.

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Want to build an app of your own? Get started with one of our tutorials:

Data Dashboard

In this tutorial, you will learn to plot data using client-side Python code and deploy it online for others to see.
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Build Database-Backed Apps

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a simple news aggregator app.
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Build a Simple Feedback Form

Build a data-entry app, and learn the techniques fundamental to building any Anvil app. In this tutorial, you will:

  • Write server-side Python
  • Build your User Interface
  • Write client-side Python
  • Store data in a database
  • Deploy your app
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