I keep seeing them throughout GitHub repos, but I’m not sure what their purpose is. I tried looking it up on Google, but the explanations did not suffice. If you know their use, please ELI5
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YAML files are configuration files that are easy for humans to read/create. They typically store things a program would need at run-time, without having to hard code those values into the program itself. Usually, the program will read in the values from a YAML file so it knows how it should be configured.
They’re basically files that a program can read so it knows the things it needs to know to run in a specific case or environment.
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