After being acquired by Microsoft GitHub has improved in many ways. first copilot and now inbuilt VSCode support in browser.
Introduction
Github added a new feature that allows you to quickly open a repository in your browser.
Before this, We were using github1s to open the repository.
Github1s is an awesome open source project but the only disadvantage was it only allows us to open the repository in read-only mode and to edit you have to sign in with GitHub and then you can work on the repository.
Now Github has added this feature in-built so we can quickly open the repository in the browser-based Visual Studio Code and get the same look and feel.
How to open repository?
It is really easy to do, While browsing any repository just press dot (.) and that repository will open in browser-based Visual Studio Code.
Suppose I am on this repository https://github.com/ashishxcode/Outreach and If I want to open this repository to take some reference I just have to press dot (.) key and I will open browser-based Visual Studio Code for me
isn't it awesome?
Currently, it does not have terminal support to use the terminal you have to clone the repository locally.
This is just the beginning many features will be added soon.
For now, if you want to run your repository in the browser you can use an app like code sandbox to use that you just need to change the main domain from github.com/ashishxcode/Outreach to githubbox.com/ashishxcode/Outreach