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Médéric Burlet
Médéric Burlet

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Beautify README files with badges

Following the README hype!!!

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

https://shields.io


API based badges

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

shield-landing-page

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

social --> twitter follow

You can then fully customize basic settings:

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Result:

Twitter Follow

Here are a few possibilities:

GitHub commit activity

Website


Custom badges

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

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

Here are a few possibilities:

Website

Email

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


Burlet Mederic
https://mederic.me
https://twitter.com/crimson_med

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Keagan Van Rooyen

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

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Médéric Burlet

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