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Github is a version control system that makes it possible for a team of developers to work on the same project and edit the same files simultaneously. We do this by having a master version, i.e. the current state of the project, online in a repository or repo on Github's website. Then, everyone downloads or clones the repo and edit their files locally. Note that the changes you make locally will not affect the live master version. Before you make changes though, you need to create a new version of the project or a branch that diverges from the master version. That is, we take the project in its current state (master version) and edit it, but we do not save the changes directly to the master branch and update the current state of the project. Rather, we only update our own version on our own branch.
When you're finished and happy with your changes you want to apply them to the master version and update the project. You do this by first updating our version of the master branch by pulling the latest version from the repo. We do this in case someone has updated it while we were making our changes. Then, we apply the master branch on our branch or rebase it and see if we have any conflicts with our changes. A conflict appears when the same file is edited in different ways. Github will show us these exact conflicts in the actual files and we can fix them. After that, we upload or push our changes to the repo and update our branch online. Now, the last thing we want to do is to apply our changes from our branch to the master branch. We do this by creating a pull request that tells the other developers that you want to update the master branch. They can then look at your changes and after they approve, you merge the branches i.e update the master branch with your changes. How all of this is actually done with commands and how you'll be working with Github is explained in Git workflow.
Framework7 is a framework for building iOS and Android apps in HTML. This is already installed and integrated into this GitHub repository, so you don't need to install anything locally to start using it. However, it is still a good idea to look through Framework7's docs to familiarize yourself with their different components and our app's structure. Almost all of our components in the app comes from Framework7, so if you ever wonder what certain things are or how they work you can most likely find information in their docs.
PhoneGap is what we use to build our apps for iOS and Android. PhoneGap takes our web application (this repo) and builds an actual app out of it that we can submit to the different app stores. We also use PhoneGap to host a local web server on our computer, which we use to "run" our app on. This is how we actually work in the app and is explained further in Standard workflow.