Favorite an issue in GitHub

Question

Apologies if this is not enough of a coding question - please refer me to the right Stack Exchange platform if there is one more relevant for this question.

I had a problem with yarn / webpack with a create-react-app and I was not the first one - the issue has been reproduced and discussed before on GitHub.

Is there a way for me to favorite this issue, or, in any other way follow progress on this issue, while not getting in the way of the discussion (since it seems they covered everything I was struggling with already)?

Answer 1

There's already a comment which suggests kind of the right solution.
But the feature actually has a different name on GitHub, and I think calling it "watch" is confusing for people who aren't that familiar with GitHub's UI.
(there's a big "Watch" button on the top of the issue, but it's on top of all pages of the repo, and it's for watching the whole repo, not this particular issue!)

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It's actually called Notifications, and it's down on the issue's right sidebar:

After clicking it, it shows that you are now "following" this issue: