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		rapsey on Oct 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What software engineers should know about search (... Something completely off topic about the content of the article but not when it comes to the title. Github search is a great resource for any engineer. It has saved me so many hours trying to figure some API out when I know there must be so many people who have used it before. "SomeApiCall" extension:.[js\|rs\|java\|cs\|etc.] Or to find projects that use a dependency you are not sure how to use "SomeDependency" extension:.[toml\|json\|etc.]

mercora on Oct 18, 2021 [–]

i did not know about these[0] keywords so thanks for that :)

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github...

alserio on Oct 18, 2021 | [–]

GitHub really needs a feature to skip searching in tests. Or maybe there is such a feature but I've never found it.

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