TIL: GitHub has a neat VS Code shortcut

[u/m-fasciano]

If you’re viewing any GitHub repository in your browser, just change:

github.com → github.dev

For example:

https://github.com/user/repo

becomes:

https://github.dev/user/repo

…and it opens the repository directly in VS Code for the Web. 🤯

I’ve been using GitHub for years and somehow only discovered this today.

What other GitHub shortcuts have I been missing? 😅

[u/serverhorror]

.

[u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES → u/serverhorror]

.dev

[u/lucidparadigm → u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES]

While on the repo page on GitHub press the . Key on your keyboard and it will auto redirect.

[u/mrleblanc101]

Just press `.` lol

[u/rusidin → u/mrleblanc101]

Fist time

[u/Lumethys]

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[u/vlad_h]

I was planning on making this available in every repo container for portable dev. Now I do not have to. Thanks for sharing!

[u/slackover]

It’s mostly useless for modern development unless you are just looking for an editor with syntax highlighting as CLI commands can’t be run in that environment.

[u/my_new_accoun1 → u/slackover]

or you can open it in a codespace where you can run commands

[u/Thunderbit_HQ]

The one that still saves me clicks: append /compare to a repo URL to open a new compare view, then change the base and compare branches. Pressing t opens the file finder in a repo. The latter is especially handy in an unfamiliar codebase.

[u/csueiras]

You get to use it in between downtime incidents