Github provides you with the functionality to make and embed a gist anywhere on the internet, but there's something missing, what if we want to share a gist of code from existing repo without the need of creating a new gist for it?

TLDR;

Hello there,

For anyone who works with documenting or creating how-tos and tutorials on software development, we know how hard it is to include a chunk of code in between.

There are few options that we can consider -

• We can include a code block in between and write down all the code we need to display.
• We could create a gist on GitHub, but creating and managing gists is tedious.

But then, we have the code in a repository most of the time, after all, one of the principle we developers adhere to is DRY (Don't repeat yourself).

This is where git-repo-gist comes in, as the name suggests, this utility allows you to create a gist out of any file from a GitHub repository.

Features

• Two modes available
  • Script and Iframe
• Supported Languages (I suppose all the popular languages are supported but the list below is for sure)
  • typescript
  • javascript
  • dart
  • json
  • php

How to use it

There are few simple steps to get gist out of code -

• Get the uri to the raw file, for eg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thefallenmerc/git-repo-gist/master/app.js
• extract the part starting from your username till end, (everything after https://raw.githubusercontent.com/), we get thefallenmerc/git-repo-gist/master/app.js
• Append this to our base url with any of the option available in between, the solution is hosted at https://git-repo-gist.herokuapp.com/, thus we get https://git-repo-gist.herokuapp.com/<option>/thefallenmerc/git-repo-gist/master/app.js, where option can have the following value -
  • gist: gives back and actual gist script
  • framed: gives back an iframe with the gist in it

Link to Git Repo Gist - Git Repo Gist