When working on a group assignment, you can view the other students in your group, and collaboratively edit and debug together in real-time. You can open assignments, sync your progress back to GitHub, and see auto-grading test results, directly within Visual Studio Code. I will soon have another article/video in which I will do a bit by bit comparison between Codespaces and this Web Editor, so consider following me or subscribing if you don't wanna miss it.Īlso, checkout this video, where I talk about the new Codespaces features now that it's GA.The GitHub Classroom extension allows you to browse your classroom assignments, and begin working on them in a single-click. It's still in beta, so probably some features will be added, but I think it's really cool! Images are 1,000 times better than words, so check it out here:Ĭomment down below with what you think of this new Web Editor. keyboard button while in the repoĪlright, it's time to see this in actions.

Directly via URL - just change to v in your browser when in the repo you want to work on.There are currently 2 ways to access the new Web Editor: It is perfect for making small changes to your code without the need of having an IDE on your laptop. This means it has some limitations over Codespaces, and we will see it in a moment, but on the flipside it's very fast to load and quickly navigate. It is similar to Codespaces, but it is not backed by any compute backing it is in fact entirely powered by your browser. The new Web Editor is a lightweight code editor, based on VSCode. Best part? It's completely free for everyone!Īs usual, if you are a visual learner, or simply prefer to watch and listen instead of reading, here you have the video with the whole explanation and demo, which to be fair is much more complete than this post. I'm talking about the new Web Editor experience accessible directly from your repos. Sounds too good to be true? Well this time it's not.Īs promised in the article / video about Codespaces that I've released last week ( check it out if you haven't yet), today we talk about an awesome new feature that has been released by GitHub together with Codespaces. A lightweight code editor, based on VSCode, that can be accessed via Browser, and it's completely free.

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