Today, the number of ready-made plugins, applications, frameworks, and microservices makes IT development way easier. Sometimes Developers don’t even need special courses, experience, or equipment to efficiently build applications. And a lot of them are available directly within platforms they use - let’s get deeper into the world of marketplaces. 

GitHub knows how important it is to offer developers some tools that speed up and ease their work! As a result in 2017, it run Github Marketplace, a place where thousands of apps made or compatible with GitHub are available for users to add, use or install. From small browser plugins to huge professional projects - paid or free. Those programs are made by individual developers, big software companies, or even GitHub. Yes, GitHub itself offers some additional tools and projects. Like for example, GitHub Learning Lab. It teaches some useful and practice skills by completing realistic and fun projects.