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Fun Things You Can Do With github.dev 😎

Jonathan Carter on August 28, 2021

GitHub recently released github.dev, which allows you to press . on any repo in order to open it in VS Code, directly from your browser (🀯). This s...
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Yinon Oved

if CodeSwing would have access to the repo it's opened in, it would be a game changer for private/internal repos. internal / private repos often lack the possibility to present some code and output quickly

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Jonathan Carter

It does! When you open a repo in GitHub.dev, it has access to private repos. And CodeSwing simply operates on the files within the workspace, and so would work perfectly in that mode as well πŸ‘

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Yinon Oved

that's great, is there any chance github.dev would allow terminal or installation of dependencies? that kind of go hand in hand

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Manan Chawla

For that u have codespaces :)

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Yinon Oved

Yeap. Waiting for access 😁

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Manan Chawla

yea u would like it!! It has become a part of my life now lol. It so awesome and so well integrated. I just hope we continue to have its free access as individuals. or atleast pro members.

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Ilie Bogdan

Awesome! Thanks for collecting these

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Tristan

I never knew this was even a thing!

Seeing this now is crazy, I was hosting my own Code-server instance for a while but seeing this now might have me change that a bit. Thank you for sharing!

Also these additions make this seem absolutely amazing

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Akin C.

Hello Jonathan Carter,

thank you for your article.
It was fun to read and I learned a lot about "github.dev".
I like how your article gives an overview of the possibilities and I'm glad because if the need for such a tool arises, I will remember this article :)!

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Adrian GΓΆrisch

The most interetsing thing i saw was running jetbrains IDEs with porjector over codespace.
twitter.com/maartenballiauw/status...

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David M.

Amazing article! Thanks so much

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Tanwi Kumari • Edited

if i am selecting some text in the currently php language opened file, and press ., then when VS Code is opened, it is not focus that file and don't highlight the same text selection.
why??
this is not supporting all languages?

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Andreas Kaiser

Great article! Thanks!

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Luis

Now this is huge! Great article.

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Lucis

Very nice article!

(Just letting you know that there's a typo in the CodeTour link)

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Jonathan Carter

Fixed! Thanks so much for the heads up πŸ‘

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Yony Calsin

Impressive ! Thanks πŸ‘ πŸŽ‰

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Aspiiire

WOW

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Artyom Titov

Don't forget to mention that it's now easier than ever to work on the go with a tablet!

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Jonathan Carter

Good point! I added a quick mention of that to the intro paragraph πŸ‘

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Amohammadi2

WTF man! That's incredibly awesome

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Aditya Kumar

Greatly elaborated πŸ”₯

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gopkumr

Awesome... It feels unreal, especially editing on the fly from a tablet, it's is so exciting.
Is so true that the best is yet to come.

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Karelle Hofler

OMG that's amazing! Thanks for the amazing article

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Krishna Agarwal

Amazing