From the course: Learning GitHub Pages
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Use GitHub.dev to edit - GitHub Tutorial
From the course: Learning GitHub Pages
Use GitHub.dev to edit
- [Instructor] Sometimes the built-in GitHub editor is quite limiting. Thankfully, there's a way to jump into Visual Studio Code directly from any repository in GitHub. So to do that, all you have to do is go to any repo and then hit the period. And you can also change the URL from github.com to github.dev, either one of these will work. So the advantage of using the link is that you can actually copy and send this as a link to somebody else so that they can go directly into the editing environment. So let's go ahead and jump in. Here, we can see that we have the same files, and this environment has a built-in markdown preview, as you can see right here. So we can take a look at any of these files just by clicking on them. I'll open up this README by double clicking on it. And the preview right now is sitting next to this document, but this is Visual Studio Code, so I can just move this over here and edit while I…