Commit generator is used to create automated commits made to your GitHub in order to decorate your commit history with pixel art.

All in all, the commit generator is a cron job that is ran in the AWS cloud using a CloudWatch rule to schedule the execution of a Lambda function that commits code to a GitHub account. Since the cronjob is ran in the cloud, it will execute as often as you assign it.

• AWS
  • Lambda
  • CloudWatch
  • IAM
• Node.js
• Git
• NPM
• Bash

1. Git installed.
   • Be sure you have Git installed on your machine. If you are unsure, run the following command in your terminal to check.

git --version

2. Node installed.
   • If you have Node installed, then go download Node here. If you are unsure, run the following command in your terminal to check.

node --version

3. AWS account.
   • If you do not have an AWS account, create one. Aftewards make sure you create an Admin IAM user

1. Fork repository

2. Clone repository.

   • Clone the repository, install all the dependencies from the package.json, and then change directories into new repository.

   git clone <GITHUB_URL>
   npm install
   cd commit-generator

3. Zip node modules

   • We will be importing all of the dependencies, for our Lambda function, as a Lambda layer. This will keep the size of our Lambda function small enough to edit the code inline in the Lambda console. From the root of the repository's directory, run the following:

   npm install
   mkdir nodejs
   mv node_modules nodejs/
   zip -r nodejs.zip nodejs
   rm -rf nodejs

   If the execution is correct, it should have created a new zip file for our Lambda layer, nodejs.zip.

   NOTE: The directory name nodejs is not random. It will point our Lambda layer to the node_modules folder when we upload it to AWS.