POLITICO Interactive News Developer Guide
  • Introduction
  • 🚨BREAK GLASS 🚨
  • Policies
  • Workflow
    • Meeting
    • Starting a project
    • Keeping a budget
    • Pre-Publish
    • Publishing a project
    • Reviewing a project
  • Guides
    • The POLITICO Interactives Build Suite
      • Getting Set Up
      • Starting An Interactive Page
      • Working Within Your Interactive Project
      • Using Components
      • Making Components
      • Getting Data Into Your Interactive
      • Publishing An Interactive
      • Publishing To GitHub
      • Using Aliases
      • Working With Metadata
      • More Templates
    • JS apps style guide
    • 2018 elections apps style
  • Infrastructure
  • WHOIS
  • Tipsheets
    • Onboarding
    • Welcome to the CMS
      • Logging in to the CMS
      • Ask a web producer
      • Place en embed yourself
      • Hide the cube ad on desktop
    • AI2HTML
    • Useful QGIS and Illustrator Hacks
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Publishing To GitHub

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One day this will be done automatically. Until then, it'll need to be done manually.

Initializing A Repo

To initialize a repo run the following in the root of your project:

$ git init

Creating A Repo on GitHub

Go to and create a new repo.

You should name the repo interactive_YOUR-PROJECT-NAME-HERE.

After you create it you should see a GitHub URL that looks like this:

git@github.com:The-Politico/interactive_YOUR-PROJECT-NAME-HERE.git

Connect this repo to your folder by running the following (providing that GitHub URL):

$ git remote add origin <GITHUB_URL_HERE>

Using Git

Once you've done this, you can use all the usual git commands to publish to Github, including git add, git commit, and git push. See for more on those.

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