📄️ Installing packages
With Replit, you can use most packages available in Python and JavaScript. Replit will install many packages on the fly just by importing them in code. You can read more about how we do this using a universal package manager.
📄️ Working with shortcuts
Be more productive with Replit by learning the code editor’s powerful shortcuts for editing, writing, and inspecting code.
📄️ Replit libraries
While you can use nearly any package or library on Replit, we have also built several of our own. You can read more about these here.
📄️ Configuring a Repl
Every new repl comes with a .replit and a replit.nix file that let you configure your repl to do just about anything in any language!
📄️ Using Nix with Replit
Replit supports all programming languages through our integration with Nix. Nix is a tool for managing software packages and system configurations. It's like Python's virtualenv and pip, but instead of focusing on one programming language, it can handle all of them, and the system configuration and environment. Nix is declarative given the same instructions (and inputs, for example, the same Nix package set), it will give you the exact same result, regardless of when or where you run it.
📄️ Using Git with Replit
There are a few ways to use Git and Replit together, using either the GUI controls built into the Replit IDE or the Replit shell.
📄️ Git commands reference guide
You can keep track of changes to your repls using Git. Here are some basic and advanced Git commands you might find useful. Note that these are not intended as a replacement for the Git reference docs, but rather a simpler version of the most commonly used commands.
📄️ Running GitHub repositories on Replit
GitHub repositories can be run automatically on Replit. Head to https://replit.com/github to import a repository. Any public repository under 500 MB can be cloned, and subscribing to our hacker plan unlocks private repos after authenticating with GitHub.
📄️ GitHub Authentication Errors in Replit
While interacting with our Git plugin and GitHub integration, you may run into error messages that look like this.
📄️ Getting repl metadata
In some cases, it's useful to automatically retrieve metadata about a repl from within that repl.
📄️ Debugging
Repls that are written in the following languages can use a built-in, multiplayer debugger:
📄️ Secrets and environment variables
Sensitive information such as credentials and API keys should be separate from your codebase so that you can share your code with others while ensuring that they cannot access your services, such as your user database.
📄️ Using repl history
To help ensure you never lose work, Replit auto-saves your code as you write. If you ever lose an edit to your code that you'd like to recover, repl history is there to help.
📄️ Switch themes
To change the theme of the Replit Workspace, navigate to the main menu by pressing the hamburger menu in the top left corner of your Workspace.
📄️ Add a Made with Replit badge to your Webview
Now you can add a "Made with Replit" badge to your public Repl's webview.