GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine

This is what I've been using as of late to learn new technologies. I always seem to forget to tell younger developers about using this approach to learn.

Something else I would add is that you should try to find well known OSS contributors that work on projects that use tech/languages you use. If you monitor their projects you can pick up great habits from reading through their code.

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Totally agree. It's one of the reasons I created searchcode.com back before github had code search and after google code search closed.

I doubled down by offering the locally installable one which I then deployed at my workplace. It has been useful for finding how other teams implement bluebird promises and general auditing for checked in AWS keys and the like. Now I think about it it is used lot for code auditing. Probably something I should focus on for new release.

as great as it is to be able to search source code in github is, it is equally (if not more) frustrating.

I think it works fine for simple searches mentioned in the post, but anything even slightly more advanced doesn't work very well. I also wish there was a way to search in branches other than master