GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces

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  • Code-Server

    VS Code in the browser

    Yes, with special Electron shenanigans. The web UI has a few features that make it more device agnostic too (e.g. a hamburger menu to replace the File menu. Yes, you can run Codespaces on an iPad.)

    Code server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server) works in a similar way using your own PC as a host, but for whatever reason Codespaces is more performant.

  • vscode-dev-containers

    Discontinued NOTE: Most of the contents of this repository have been migrated to the new devcontainers GitHub org (https://github.com/devcontainers). See https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter and https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter for information on creating your own!

    Currently, VS Code is the primary method of connection to each Codespace, and we do not support other editors officially.

    If you’re looking to connect via SSH, we do have a workaround here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/blob/main... -- and I use this regularly for Jupyter Notebooks.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • wincent

    💾 Dot-files

    You can have it clone your dotfiles repo automatically and run a set-up script:

    https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes...

    I also have a very bespoke dotfiles config that predates Codespaces (https://github.com/wincent/wincent), so I made a thin wrapper around it that makes it work (https://github.com/wincent/dotfiles). For people with less complicated set-ups (ie. basically the entire universe), it is pretty straightforward.

  • dotfiles

    Discontinued 💾 Dot-files [Moved to: https://github.com/wincent/wincent] (by wincent)

    You can have it clone your dotfiles repo automatically and run a set-up script:

    https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes...

    I also have a very bespoke dotfiles config that predates Codespaces (https://github.com/wincent/wincent), so I made a thin wrapper around it that makes it work (https://github.com/wincent/dotfiles). For people with less complicated set-ups (ie. basically the entire universe), it is pretty straightforward.

  • disnix

    Disnix: A Nix-based distributed service deployment tool

  • cli

    GitHub’s official command line tool

    You know how they added Github CLI[0], right? There may be a time where you must use Github CLI instead of a "standard" git client to interact with Github projects. That would be the "extinguish" phase. Right now they have embraced and are extending (such as with Github CLI).

    [0] https://cli.github.com/

  • dotfiles

    GitHub Codespaces setup (by dcreager)

    The repo owner gets to define the base Docker image that’s used in the codespace. And then it also looks for a dotfiles repo under your user account, which you can use to install all of your personal customizations. You can see mine at https://github.com/dcreager/dotfiles

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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