--- title: How to Write a Good README File for Your GitHub Project description: Hillary Nyakundi: How to Write a Good README File for Your GitHub Project. She explains how to write a good README file for your GitHub project. She also shows... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-a-good-readme-file-for-your-github-project-ei-aqa9-q twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Write a Good README File for Your GitHub Project | daily.dev og:description: Hillary Nyakundi: How to Write a Good README File for Your GitHub Project. She explains how to write a good README file for your GitHub project. She also shows... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-a-good-readme-file-for-your-github-project-ei-aqa9-q og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ei_AqA9-Q.png og:image:alt: How to Write a Good README File for Your GitHub Project og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Write a Good README File for Your GitHub Project **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@larymak](https://daily.dev/larymak) · 6 min read · 61 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Hillary Nyakundi: How to Write a Good README File for Your GitHub Project. She explains how to write a good README file for your GitHub project. She also shows you how to use GitHub's README tool to help you with your project. Read more here: http://www.gitHub.com/news/features/how-to-write-a-good-readme-file-for-your-GitHub-project. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 3 upvotes > To the point! 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