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What is act? Run your GitHub Actions locally. Rather than having to commit/push every time you want test out the changes you are making to your .github/workflows/ files (or for any changes to embedded GitHub actions), you can use this tool to run the actions locally. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides.

What is Octokit? GitHub API Client Library for .NET. It is a client library targeting .NET 4.5 and above that provides an easy way to interact with the GitHub API.

act and Octokit can be primarily classified as "Tools for GitHub" tools.

Octokit is an open source tool with 1.85K GitHub stars and 898 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Octokit's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is act?

Rather than having to commit/push every time you want test out the changes you are making to your .github/workflows/ files (or for any changes to embedded GitHub actions), you can use this tool to run the actions locally. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides.

What is Octokit?

It is a client library targeting .NET 4.5 and above that provides an easy way to interact with the GitHub API.

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dbt

dbt is a transformation workflow that lets teams deploy analytics code following software engineering best practices like modularity, portability, CI/CD, and documentation. Now anyone who knows SQL can build production-grade data pipelines.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

Release

When run, this command line interface automatically generates a new GitHub Release and populates it with the changes (commits) made since the last release.

GitHub Desktop

It is an open-source multi-platform GUI Git client designed for working with GitHub repositories. Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git. Whether you're new to Git or a seasoned user, it simplifies your development workflow.

GitHub CLI

It is a free and open-source command-line for GitHub. It provides GitHub's graphical features like pull requests, issues, releases, etc. into a terminal. So, anyone can perform the whole GitHub operation from a terminal or with a script.

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