Beautify README files with badges

#github #git #webdev

Following the README hype!!!

Not to long ago I discovered an awesome tool for adding badges to your various markdown files.

API based badges

Looking at the landing page we can already see a various set of categories:

From their you can navigate and choose a service that interests you for instance:

social --> twitter follow

You can then fully customize basic settings:

Result:

Here are a few possibilities:

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, shields.io let's you create custom badges

This lets you create everything and anything and even use data urls.

Here are a few possibilities:

For more badges and cool stuff check out https://shields.io

I didn't even think of using these in posts 🙈 great article and thanks for the idea

You can add them at the bottom for links! it gives some vibrance!