# [![github-projects](media/repo-banner@2x.png)](https://www.bigchaindb.com) > Microservice to cache and expose GitHub projects for use throughout [www.bigchaindb.com](https://www.bigchaindb.com). [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/bigchaindb/github-projects.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bigchaindb/github-projects) [![XO code style](https://img.shields.io/badge/code_style-XO-5ed9c7.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/xo) ## API Endpoint: [`https://bigchaindb-github.now.sh`](https://bigchaindb-github.now.sh) ### GET / **200**: Returns a list of all public projects as follows ```json [ { "name": "project-name", "description": "The description", "stars": 3040, "forks": 293, "is_fork": false, "release": "v0.10.0", "url": "https://github.com/bigchaindb/project" } ] ``` ## Development Install dependencies: ```bash npm install ``` And run the server: ```bash npm start ``` ## Deployment Deploy to [now](https://zeit.co/now), make sure to switch to BigchainDB org before deploying: ```bash # first run now login now switch # deploy now # switch alias to new deployment, e.g. now alias bigchaindb-github-projects-wxkyissxos bigchaindb-github ``` ## Authors - Matthias Kretschmann ([@kremalicious](https://github.com/kremalicious)) - [BigchainDB](https://www.bigchaindb.com) Blatantly ~~copied from~~ inspired by [zeit/github-projects](https://github.com/zeit/github-projects)