How to explore Github repo in VS code?
Though I am not a VS code user, but at times I have been tempted to give it a shot to VS code. Recently I came across something in VS Code which has changed everything for me. I have decided switch to VS code for next 1 week.
How many times in a week do you come across repositories which you to explore ?
If you are some like me then its 10+ times per week. And to do this here are the approaches:
- Explore the file inside Github file explorer, though it works great for small tasks but definitely you would find the bottleneck when you want to do some advance task.
- You can clone the repo locally and then see it using the IDE of your choice.
- What if you could combine both the approaches? Enter https://github1s.com
You can open any Github repo without cloning in the browser in VS code. This is a game changer for me. Suppose you want to see the code base of one of the repos like https://github.com/arghyaiitb/django-celery-postgres-redis-react-github-aws
All you need to do is add 1s after the github. here is what your link would be -
https://github1s.com/arghyaiitb/django-celery-postgres-redis-react-github-aws
Notice the 1s after github
The best part is it doesn't even need any login or signup. Everything works just like your local IDE. 
You already saw the advantages and the ease of use with github1s.com. In this part I shall discuss the details on how this project is implemented.
I would suggest you to dig deep into the codebase of github1s.
Here is a summary of what I found out from my research.
- The name is One second to read Github code with VS Code
- Github1s is based on VS Code 1.52.1 version
- This project uses the REST API of github
- Since no backend support is required, the project is hosted on github pages.
- There is a rate limit to unauthenticated Github REST api of 60 request per hour per IP address, so if you are facing any such issue you should move to authenticated request
- If you are using Github Oauth token to authenticate yourself, the token stays inside the browser.
This article first appeared on the The TLDR Tech.
