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GitHub search tips

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GitHub search tips

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- [Ray] When you need to find something, you use the Mighty Searchbox in GitHub, but it might not always return what you want. Let's get started by trying a simple search. So, I'm going to search here for Vue.js projects, so I'll just type in Vue and you'll notice that I have an option to search either in my own account, which is in this user, or all of GitHub. I'm going to choose in this user. As you can see, it returns any of my repositories that have the keyword Vue in the name, or as one of the keywords, or in the descriptions. Now if you take a look at the search bar, you can see that it actually added something to what I searched. It typed in the keyword user and then colon and then my username and then a space bar and the keyword that I typed. Now that should be a hint that there are different keywords that you can type in there. Let's try something else. I'm going to try typing in the keyword stars and then a…

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