Creating and pushing the application into a GitHub repository

If you’ve been following along with this book, by now, you should have a directory in your filesystem that contains the complete application. If this is not the case, you can always download the ZIP file containing the application source code from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-Development-with-Quarkus-and-React/, and use the code from Chapter 13 as the starting point. In this section, we’ll push the source code to a new GitHub repository.

GitHub user account

This section assumes you already have a GitHub user account. If this is not the case, you can easily create one by following the wizard at https://github.com/signup. The only requirement is having a valid email address.

Let’s start by creating the new repository by clicking on the plus symbol and the New repository menu entry:

Figure 14.1 – A screenshot of GitHub’s Create new pop-up...