# Know your tool - GitHub Search
Hey Developers and learners.
**Productivity**, a word used most around you. Rapidly changing frameworks, frequent language feature updates and almost impossible project deadlines wrecked our productivity and peace of mind.
To cope up with these updates , one need to persistently try them along with your job or freelance work.
For every new thing to master you need to believe in:
>"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
These changes are well thought and well discussed, believe me they will increase your productivity once you know them.
# Github
>The tools you need
to build what you want. - github
A home of 50 million developers and counting. Also, Free for you.
>[Github Features](https://github.com/features)
Give a read to above features, you'll be amazed what Github offers you.
When your team or your boss asks you to implement some tricky feature or a features you haven't implemented in the past.
First thing you do is the google search.
> and if you are legend you directly search it on github😎
but Github is not a search engine, also don't know you well, sometimes it does not understand your query.
like , my boss asked me to implement something like this, on my current salon project which is in Flutter:
I search on github to get some idea about it:
>Notice new github dark mode😋
sadly, i haven't got a single result to go ahead.
### Then, I searched with hinting github to look in Readme files, see difference
## Similar to this Github has more Tricks for Search, Lets Dive in:
### 1. in:
```
in:readme flutter animation
```
```
in:name dart functional
```
```
in:Description open source flutter app
```
### 2. More Stars, Forks
```
stars:>= 20 flutter bluetooth
```
>Apply Range
```
forks:10..20 spring cloud
```
### 3. Small Code Repositories, Please
>Big repositories are not what you want; if you love those simple, small and smart repositories only, you can add this search term:
```
size:<=1000 dart algorithm
```
Unit of size here is KB, so 1000 means 1MB.
### 4. Actively Maintained Repositories
>For example, you want to search those projects have updates in the last two weeks:
```
pushed:>2020-11-20 flutter
```
*You may also search repositories **created** before or after a certain time using created rather than **push**.*
### 5. Friendly Licensed Projects
>For example, the well-known Apache License 2, you can search like this:
```
license:apache-2.0 flutter
```
[License list](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/licensing-a-repository)
### 6. Language Only
```
language:Dart
```
### 7. Particular Developer or Organization
>User
```
user:LarsBak dart
```
>Org
```
org:google
```
### 8. Combine them all
```
user:lars language:Dart pushed:>2020-12-9 stars:>100 in:description flutter
```
## Wanna try more, hit :
[Github Advance Search](https://github.com/search/advanced)
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Thank you, Peace.🤞