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Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

1692 points by tardismechanic 6y ago

mtlynch 6y ago
This is neat, but search seems to be broken. I loaded one of my repositories and ran global searches for strings I know exist and they came up with no results. After I opened the file in the web editor, the results would appear in subsequent searches.
- ibraheemdev 6y ago
  It looks like search only works for files that are currently open.
  - gbraad 6y ago
    It likely does not pull all the code into localstorage, but only those opened are retrieved as raw? An actual checkout would exceed 1s ;-)
    - chrisco255 6y ago
      Yeah, but you'd think you could pull down the directory without pulling down the files? I mean, I love the project either way, and it's already impressive as-is.
      - gbraad 6y ago
        If you want more, use gitpod.io
- dstaley 6y ago
  The #1 reason I end up cloning a repo and opening it in VS Code is to perform search, so it's a bummer search doesn't work. I'd even give up on the "1s" bit if I could open a full-text searchable version of the repo.
  - renerthr 6y ago
    What do you guys think of vim with fzf? You can also use the `tree` command. And it consumes less RAM, probably. Why is it that VS Code seems to be so popular?
    - dmlittle 6y ago
      It's not that you _can't_ do these things in vim/emacs it's that the experience is different. I'd argue that VS Code is closer to an IDE than just an editor. For example, I can Cmd+Click on a function usage and it takes me to its definition. If I hover my mouse over it it displays information about the variables/function/data structure/etc. If I'm running docker containers I can attach a shell, view its logs, start/stop/restart it with the click of a button. There are thousands of extensions that allow me to augment the user experience – a Terraform extension that allows me to open resource documentation with the click of a button, running diffs on code, running code formatters, etc. Yes, all of this is possible with vim/emacs plugins but its not out of the box and the UX is not the same (and you're lying to yourself if you claim this isn't true). Installing and managing all of these plugins (in vim at least) is a lot more painful. As for the RAM consumption, it's honestly minimal. Running Chrome is more of a resource hog than VS Code.
      - RMPR 6y ago
        > Yes, all of this is possible with vim/emacs plugins but its not out of the box and the UX is not the same (and you're lying to yourself if you claim this isn't true). Installing and managing all of these plugins (in vim at least) is a lot more painful. Nitpicking a bit, but neovim has LSP built-in so you don't really need a plugin to achieve such basic tasks.
        bern4444 6y ago
        It has built in LSP, but I still need a few plugins to get additional functionality like auto complete, auto import (thanks nvim-compe!), definition preview (lsp-saga) etc. I love nvim too and the direction its going, but the parent comment is correct. Its a lot more painful to set up compared to VSCode.
ibraheemdev 6y ago
This is absolutely amazing! I frequently reference Github repositories while developing so this helps me a lot. Thanks to whoever made this! (side note: I wonder if someone could/has made a similar tool for vim; that way I can stay in the terminal)
- drzel 6y ago
  Done: https://github.com/drzel/vim-repo-edit https://github.com/drzel/vim-repo-edit
jeswin 6y ago
Very useful, thanks. This will also be handy as a browser plugin - like click on an icon to switch to vscode view.
- mrec 6y ago
  Don't think it needs a plugin, could just be a one-liner bookmarklet e.g. javascript:window.location.host = "github1s.com";
  - eyelidlessness 6y ago
    I think a plugin would actually be great if it doesn’t take you out of your history state. The two views could live in the same page with parallel DOMs. Navigating GH is already iffy for back/forward nav without introducing another host into the mix
haskellandchill 6y ago
Oh VS is just JavaScript, but how exactly does this work? I couldn't tell by reading the code except that it does have src/vs that has what looks like a subset of the Microsoft code files in it.
stevetodd 6y ago
Holy smokes—worked fast and smooth on my phone too! Well done!
reustle 6y ago
This is fabulous. I remember something similar 2 or 3 years ago where you could "log in with github" and create commits using VS Code in the browser. Does anyone remember the name? Is it still alive? Iirc it was a very simple name like "code.org" (but not that).
- bdcravens 6y ago
  You're thinking of coder.com. I think it has changed a bit and it's not as easy to get started with their service, but you can still host the server yourself: https://github.com/cdr/code-server https://github.com/cdr/code-server
  - reustle 6y ago
    Thank you, according to https://coder.com/pricing https://coder.com/pricing > No. Coder Enterprise is not SaaS. It is software that you must deploy and run it on your own infrastructure, either a public or private cloud. That's unfortunate. Very excited to see a SaaS solution by someone soon. Edit: This seems to be what I'm looking for https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/github-codespaces/ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/github-codespace...
    - judge2020 6y ago
      Or, the GitHub feature page itself (same feature as the one you linked via microsoft.com): https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
- gbraad 6y ago
  Gitpod.io using Theia. And coder.com using code-server
  - shuuji3 6y ago
    Recently, we can switch the editor of the Gitpod to the VS Code. Root, Docker and VS Code - https://www.gitpod.io/blog/root-docker-and-vscode/#vs-code https://www.gitpod.io/blog/root-docker-and-vscode/#vs-code
cjohansson 6y ago
Ok one second is an exaggeration and I can't scroll to read in my iPhone, maybe Github10sdesktop would be more realistic. But cool anyway
- eyelidlessness 6y ago
  Basically the same experience as any Monaco editor on my phone. I’ve recently tried to do quick code experiments on my phone while taking a break on a variety of platforms... basically none are usable. Maybe you were expecting something to be comparable to an existing experience? If so please share.
  - qbasic_forever 6y ago
    Code Mirror 6 is supposed to be focusing on mobile-first usability: https://codemirror.net/6/ https://codemirror.net/6/ The creator just had a talk at Fosdem a couple days ago too: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/codemirror/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/codemirror/ I am super excited about a usable mobile code editing experience, and am really surprised how much monaco has languished and failed to deliver here.
- spockz 6y ago
  Scrolling works fine on my iPhone (11). However no keyboard pops up when going to an editor pane. I can move the cursor about though.
  - rnotaro 6y ago
    Editing is not a feature yet, even on desktop. That's why your virtual keyboard doesn't appear.
CreepGin 6y ago
Can private repos be supported in any way?
- jakereps 6y ago
  It appears they could be supported at the moment. In the sidebar there is a GitHub1s Settings menu (the bottom) and in that you can supply your own OAuth/App token to increase your request rate limit, but by delegating access to that token to your private repos you should be able to read your own or chosen/owned private repositories (the caveat being you're giving this app that token outside of a normal OAuth login flow, so I'm not sure how comfortable someone would be with doing that - it seems a normal GitHub OAuth sign in flow could be investigated).
lxe 6y ago
There are software projects that get posted once in a while on HN that are on a completely different level of quality, whether it's product, UX, or tech. This is one of those posts.
- stanislavb 6y ago
  This one is amazing. I've cloned so many repos locally with the only reason to explore them with the comfort of VS Code.
  - news_hacker 6y ago
    I really wish it had Cmd+P support for searching for project files. I find the project a really cool concept, but am genuinely curious what real value this is adding in it's current incarnation? Navigating the folder structure is kinda nice, but I don't see much else. Am I missing something obvious?
    - KiranRao0 6y ago
      Nothing obvious. I've found Cmd+Shift+P, then delete the > character, works extremely well in place of Cmd+P.
    - perryizgr8 6y ago
      > what real value this is adding in it's current incarnation? Ctrl+Shift+F works. I've forgotten how many repos I clone off github just to be able to search all through the code.
      - xmprt 6y ago
        Github allows you to search through repositories as long as they're not forks.
        perryizgr8 6y ago
        How does that work? I've never been able to find this option. Also, this tool's search is broken. It searches only the currently open file.
zaptheimpaler 6y ago
How does this magic work? Does VS Code run completely in the browser?
- brailsafe 6y ago
  The desktop app runs on electron, which is Chrome under the covers, so I imagine it doesn't take a tremendous amount of work to just run it straight in the browser.
- pid_0 6y ago
  I mean, it already basically does
- gunn 6y ago
  https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
- exikyut 6y ago
  (Electron = Chromium minus tab bar and window borders)
  - momothereal 6y ago
    Plus a Node.js API to interact with the host and create windows, and an IPC system to communicate between the renderer and node processes
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  90% of VS Code is typescript that already works fine in the browser. There's just a small layer of nodejs to interface with the local filesystem and run processes. Quite a few projects have existed that pull the core of VS code out into the browser and reimplement the small platform layer on their own: - Eclipse Theia: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia - Coder: https://github.com/cdr/code-server https://github.com/cdr/code-server I'm sure there are countless versions for mobile that are hasty Cordova-based versions of the VS Code core too.
qbasic_forever 6y ago
I wouldn't get too attached to this tool, folks. Github lawyers are not going to be happy with this domain directly infringing on their copyright and are almost certainly at this very minute sending cease and desists. Even if they like the tool and want to see it succeed, the domain is a bit of a fishing and spam risk for them. Best case Github tells them to knock it off and suggests a different domain they use. Gitpod has been around for a few years and offers the exact same service but on a more distinct gitpod.io domain: https://www.gitpod.io/docs/getting-started/#prefixed-url https://www.gitpod.io/docs/getting-started/#prefixed-url
sergiotapia 6y ago
Gamechanger my man! This is so good it warrants a browser extension to add a button to all repos to View in VSCode. Kivubg ut
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  Github already has that feature, every repo has an "Edit in Codespaces" button to press: https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
  - krrrh 6y ago
    It’s still in early access, so most of us don’t have it yet.
Jarred 6y ago
It’s very impressive how fast this loads. Every time I’ve integrated Monaco (web-based Visual Studio Code), it takes multiple seconds to render. GitHub Codespaces, the official way to open GitHub repos in a web-based Visual Studio Code instance, loads probably 20x slower than this.
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  Just briefly browsing the source this is a much more minimal version of VS code--many of the extensions microsoft packages and ships aren't in it. I don't doubt that helps reduce the JS bundle significantly and as a result gives you much speedier loading times. For example there's no terminal or any of its extensions in this version of VS code.
  - jachee 6y ago
    Right. That can be done because this is specifically only for reading code with a VSCode interface.
- shawnz 6y ago
  Codespaces gives you a VM in which you can debug your application, but this service does not appear to do that.
- naikrovek 6y ago
  Monaco is just the extensible text editor, right? Nothing else, I thought.
breck 6y ago
Thanks, I love it. Also goes to show how GitHub's simple but well thought out url structure continues to pay dividends in unexpected ways.
- momothereal 6y ago
  Except for branches with slashes in them... https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/issues/22#issuecomment-775979581 https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/issues/22#issuecomment-7...
Jarred 6y ago
Feature request: make CMD+P support searching files in the repository. Currently, it shows "No matching results". To implement this quickly client-side, one easy way would be to use jsdelivr's data api. For example, to get the directory tree for Ruby on Rails: https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/package/gh/rails/rails@06e8d5c29fa9cce83cd99cefed2d135094584acd/flat https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/package/gh/rails/rails@06e8d5c2...
- madeofpalk 6y ago
  Maybe the shortcut is different in the browser on macOS, but on Windows CTRL + P just works for searching the project, like it does in VSCode proper on desktop. I quickly did ctrl + shift + f to search as well and it worked well
- bewareandaware 6y ago
  It looks like it works for previously opened files. Perhaps the author didn't want to load the whole tree into the browser, or maybe its a limitation on webhosted vscode?
  - thw0rted 6y ago
    I suspect that the author didn't want to eager-load all files because the API they're using is rate-limited -- 60 requests/hr when unauthenticated, or 5000/hr if you generate a unique OAuth token. Even that 5k could get burned through pretty quickly for a larger repo, assuming you have to make at least one request per file.
the_arun 6y ago
Pretty cool, but I would assume this depends on internet speed for left nav items? no?
bachmeier 6y ago
While this is a move in the right direction, Gitlab has had a similar feature for years, and it's not read-only.
- dtrailin 6y ago
  How does this feature work on Gitlab? Can you link a doc? Is it VS code as well?
  - qbasic_forever 6y ago
    See: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/ https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/ It's a lightly re-skinned version of the monaco code editor that VS code also uses. It looks and feels like VS code.
blackoil 6y ago
Brilliant!! Github should make it first class. Most times, I don't need full power of codespace, something leaner(free) just to browse code will be awesome.
Garbage 6y ago
This is brilliant. CodeSandbox also has this. For example, you can import this project in CodeSandbox using link https://githubbox.com/conwnet/github1s https://githubbox.com/conwnet/github1s (adding box between github and .com) https://codesandbox.io/docs/importing https://codesandbox.io/docs/importing
- gremlinsinc 6y ago
  godda*n this could've saved me so much time... thanks though!
est 6y ago
This would break some github's geo-blocking repos.
akmittal 6y ago
Github has Codespaces in early release (https://github.com/codespaces/ https://github.com/codespaces/), but much faster
- mizzao 6y ago
  That gives a 404.
  - twsted 6y ago
    You need to be invited to try
  - sodality2 6y ago
    https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces is the info page
- thundergolfer 6y ago
  I've been using Codespaces recently, and most recently with PyTorch. Accessing https://github1s.com/pytorch/pytorch https://github1s.com/pytorch/pytorch is _much_ faster than accessing PyTorch through Codespaces (because former is a read-only IDE), so this site is useful beyond Codespaces.
chii 6y ago
it'd be interesting to have language servers also working (i wonder if it's possible to run language servers as local service workers on the browser), so that you can also navigate via symbols.
samzer 6y ago
Would it be possible to view personal private respository code with this? I'm not sure what it would take to make that happen.
- naikrovek 6y ago
  I'm not sure that would make sense for this tool. This tool is to quickly investigate a codebase you've never seen through the façade of a familiar tool. A "personal private repository" isn't code that you've never seen or are unfamiliar with.
  - BorisEm 6y ago
    My organization has hundreds of private repos. It would be great to use this tool to explore those.
    - kjakm 6y ago
      +1. This would be an incredibly useful tool when I have to search private company repos I'm unfamiliar with. Currently I use GitHub's 'search current repo' functionality but it's not great.
      - rmorey 6y ago
        SourceGraph? https://about.sourcegraph.com/ https://about.sourcegraph.com/
        kjakm 6y ago
        Interesting product, thanks!
    - naikrovek 6y ago
      Note the "personal" qualifier in the comment.
  - janpot 6y ago
abalone 6y ago
This is cool and I hope they don’t run into copyright issues with the domain, which they probably will. Trademark lawyers basically have to go after violations otherwise they risk losing control of the mark. Maybe GitHub could be nice and license it to the project for free.
- jwr 6y ago
  This was my first thought as well, I would not be happy if people started to use my business name in similar-looking domains. Also, you have to defend your trademark.
lostintangent 6y ago
If folks are interested in browsing (and editing) GitHub repos in VS Code without cloning, the GistPad extension might be worth checking out: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-contrib.gistfs#repositories https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-con.... It’s not necessarily as convenient as a web client, but it lets you work from your existing/customized editor setup (e.g. theme, keybindings), and it supports editing, branches, commenting, etc.
- Gehinnn 6y ago
  I love it! You can also author commits with it! I'm missing some really easy way to open a github repository though, ideally a button on github next to clone, like "Open with GistPad".
lifeplusplus 6y ago
would be cool if you could fork the repo and make pr
vemv 6y ago
github1s.com doesn't seem a very fortunate domain name as it's obviously based on github.com - it's well plausible that it will be taken down sooner or later.
- Gehinnn 6y ago
  Afaik raw.githubusercontent.com was third party as well and lived for a very long time.
  - carlosperate 6y ago
    How did it end up being absorved by GitHub? The "raw" button in the file views use that domain now.
  - jkcxn 6y ago
    That's official, you're thinking of https://rawgit.com/ https://rawgit.com/
rahulpadalkar 6y ago
This is insane!!!!!!!!!!!
avipars 6y ago
not sure the benefit, but it does work well
wly_cdgr 6y ago
That was more than one second. Fail.
jcul 6y ago
Amazing. It even works great on my phone. This is one of the best things I've seen on hacker news.
Gehinnn 6y ago
If you like the text editor that powers VS Code (Monaco) and would like to use it for writing Markdown on github, check out my foss chrome/Firefox browser extension [1]! It replaces all text areas with a Monaco editor. [1] https://github.com/hediet/browser-ext-github-monaco https://github.com/hediet/browser-ext-github-monaco
- dairylee 6y ago
  Seems like a cool extension, will give it a try. Reminds me of the GhostText[1] extension I used to use for Sublime to sync an input field with my editor. [1]https://github.com/GhostText/GhostText https://github.com/GhostText/GhostText
  - Gehinnn 6y ago
    That is a cool project, thanks for sharing!
- GSGBen 6y ago
  This would be incredible on Trello!
  - Gehinnn 6y ago
    I never used Trello, what would make this great there? Shouldn't be too hard to implement!
    - faeyanpiraat 6y ago
      Trello uses a basic textarea for ticket description editing, which makes it a pain for anything more complicated than it is intended to be used for, which severely limits it's use cases.
- snak 6y ago
  Looks great, I'll give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
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miki123211 6y ago
This is amazing for accessibility. Github's own interface is kinda meh with screen readers. This is much better.
S0und 6y ago
This link showed up on /r/programming yesterday. Everyone is freaking out that the domain is registered from China. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lfpngg/explore_github_source_code_right_on_the_web/gmodnwk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lfpngg/explore... hackernews doesn't seems to care, which is ironic in many levels.
- apples_oranges 6y ago
  Can you explain the irony? Just trying to get a feeling for the whole China thing.. For example I have noticed that some people have a lowly view of TikTok because it's Chinese. I understand the privacy aspect of it, I don't trust Chinas data policies myself (and slightly more trust ours or rather our ability to implement them securely), but is there also a factor of "the Chinese are getting really good at inventing things", too?
vemv 6y ago
I enjoyed replicating just now an analogously fast workflow that shallow-clones a git repo and then opens it in my GUI IDE from the terminal without any other clicking around being necessary. So I can `pbpaste | git_clone_and_open_in_ide` and be done.
metahost 6y ago
Could not get it to work with private repos even after using an API token, is it supported?
- beyti 6y ago
  Same here, that would be a really useful thing for my organization.
- swashbuck1r 6y ago
  I was able to test github1s for private repos after generating a personal access token, and pasting it into the Set OAuth Token screen (via little github1s icon in the sidebar). After this was correctly configured, the "Status" indicator on the welcome page turned green and now says "Authorized" (instead of the yellow "Unauthorized" that I initially saw)
funman7 6y ago
Yes I need this for bitbucket.
funman7 6y ago
Yes I need this in my life, for Bitbucket.
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drusepth 6y ago
I'm confused how to use this. Do I need VS Code installed and/or do I need to open the URL through VS Code? The readme doesn't seem to offer much guidance, and any time I visit any 1s repo (even the example https://github1s.com/microsoft/vscode https://github1s.com/microsoft/vscode link in the readme), I just see a blank, white page. People are talking about loading pages on mobile, so it doesn't seem like VSC is needed...
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- progval 6y ago
  I don't have VSCode installed at all, and I don't get the blank page. Did you check the debug console of your browser for errors? Also check you have Javascript enabled.
  - drusepth 6y ago
    Ah, I do indeed have console errors. https://i.imgur.com/19gU4tl.png https://i.imgur.com/19gU4tl.png On Chrome 80 / Ubuntu, FWIW. Was under the impression optional chaining was valid JS without transpiling, but who knows. Either way, loaded it up just fine on my Windows box to check out -- looks super useful!
- hobofan 6y ago
  You are either encountering a bug then, or your internet might be too slow? I also see a blank white page for a split second until the editor/viewer loads up.
_pmf_ 6y ago
Why not make GitHub fast? Why do I have to use an editor embedding a web browser instead of using a web browser?
spark3k 6y ago
This is brilliant. Should be a core part of GitHub
- randompwd 6y ago
  No it shouldn't. IDEs come and go.
kaladin_1 6y ago
Cudos! You have motivated more than a few today. This is big push to really do one thing very well. This by far ticks the box for the best project I've seen this year. Perfect UI/UX clone. Search functionality is very close to desktop VS Code. Even mind-blowing is the loading speed. At this age and time where some blogs take 2mins to load.
- zeusk 6y ago
  Because this is literally the vscode editor (monaco?) pointed to the github repo, with a github fs backing?
geniium 6y ago
Really nice product
baby 6y ago
That’s it. Black magic. That’s what all of us wanted, that’s what we thought would happen with advances in technology, it just happened!
wrboyce 6y ago
This is really cool, and has inspired the latest function to be added to my zshrc: vscodetmp () { local repo=$1 [[ ! $repo =~ "https://*" ]] && repo="https://github.com/${repo}" local temp="$(mktemp -d)" git clone "${repo}" "${temp}" code --wait -n "${temp}" rm -rf "${temp}" }
- jasonlfunk 6y ago
  I love this, thanks.
- thepete2 6y ago
  Now you need a function to move it to a permanent location if you like the project and want to keep it or contribute.
  - gbraad 6y ago
    Gitpod.io
- jeffreygoesto 6y ago
  Why not "--single-branch" when cloning? Couldn't it speed up cloning if there are many branches?
  - Tobu 6y ago
    --depth=1 (shallow clone, and implies --single-branch)
spion 6y ago
Really cool concept, however language service and file search don't quite work (even for TypeScript projects) due to lazy loading of files and directories. Still, its almost there! Can't wait!
whitecrow90 6y ago
Fantastic <3
DangerousPie 6y ago
This made me think that VS Code should really just have a "View Github Repository" option where you paste the URL and it opens something like this, except in the normal desktop app. If you want to be elaborate you could even have support for making changes.
- robenkleene 6y ago
  If you have the Visual Studio Codespaces extension installed (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vsonline.vsonline https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vsonl...), then GitHub Codespaces (https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces currently in beta) gets you a workflow pretty close to this.
  - rnotaro 6y ago
    I wish it was available for orgs private repos.
- wallabyjs 6y ago
  Check out Dingo extension for VS Code, does exactly that for GitHub URLs + for npm packages by name too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WallabyJs.dingo-vscode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WallabyJ...
ddtaylor 6y ago
That domain name is probably going to run them in trouble though =/
bilekas 6y ago
I was a little bit confused reading what this project was.. It's early and was thinking it was some VSCode extension thinking : "Okay, kinda quirky but big deal?" Then it hit me.. This is outstanding!
lynxaegon 6y ago
Thanks for this one! I really needed something like this to explore github repos.
jack_riminton 6y ago
Brilliant!
offtop5 6y ago
I'd love to see this hosted internally and used for code reviews. Very cool project !
ghego1 6y ago
This is incredibly cool!!! I don't know to what extent this is affiliated to GitHub, but if it is not it should be definitely bought/incorporated
nicomeemes 6y ago
This is awesome, would be great if there was a chrome extension or addon for Octotree, so you could click a button to open the repo.
mbar84 6y ago
With the leverage we're all getting out of the Monaco editor component, can somebody give that team at Microsoft a Touring award or something?
aflag 6y ago
Really nice! Is there any way to enable light mode? I find dark mode hard to read.
yutsun 6y ago
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jonas_kgomo 6y ago
This is similar to the idea of Codespaces from Github https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
AltruisticGapHN 6y ago
How does this compare to Octotree browser extension in terms of main uses?
soheil 6y ago
It is shocking to me to read the number of comments saying how this is tier 1 UI and how amazing of a job the author has done with the UX and comments praising the UI/UX. Wtf happened to HN? This is a fucking wrapper around an open source text editor, there is zero UI by the author.
- schrute 6y ago
  > Wtf happened to HN? > This is a fucking wrapper around an open source text editor People like you are no longer receive attention for shouting and throwing a tantrum. You and your negative comments are drowned out. So, what happened to HN? It has improved. Hop aboard and take a swig of positivity buddy.
  - slingnow 6y ago
    He's commenting on the fact that no one here seems to understand the author did ZERO UI/UX WORK. He wrapped an existing tool. Made something incredibly useful, but wrapped an existing tool. The praise is completely misguided. I prefer a world where people get praise for something praiseworthy. Not an army of people who say things like "take a swig of positivity buddy".
    - Splendor 6y ago
      In that case, I regret that I'm unable to offer you praise for your comment.
- icholy 6y ago
  wtf are you talking about? I don't see any comments praising the author for writing the UI.
  - zufallsheld 6y ago
    See this top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26087077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26087077
therealmarv 6y ago
Search broken. So what is the benefit?
soheil 6y ago
It'd be nice if it could lazily clone the repo in the background so the search functionality would work as more files are indexed.
ChrisArchitect 6y ago
this is great/neat but took me awhile to understand what it was from the name. One second implies time of reading or...I dunno it's just confusing/unclear.
qwertywert_ 6y ago
Is it safe to just give this an OAuth token for private repo access?
altilunium 6y ago
I'm trying to reverse engineer how it works.. It is a static webpage, hosted on Github Pages https://conwnet.github.io/github1s https://conwnet.github.io/github1s And, here is the static webpage source-code: https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/blob/gh-pages/404.html https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/blob/gh-pages/404.html
- softmarshmallow 6y ago
  See under extensions/ https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf It's basically all custom scripts to replace extra code to origin vscode repo.
naqushab 6y ago
What a nice feature. Octotree[1] is a Chrome extension which does that fantastically. It also supports Enterprise Github in Pro version. [1] https://www.octotree.io/ https://www.octotree.io/
softmarshmallow 6y ago
I found github.surf github.surf this works same as github1s, but i like it more for no reason lol. e.g. github.surf/matchabot/matcha-bot
softmarshmallow 6y ago
how about https://github.surf/ https://github.surf/. ? This supports also CLI "surf ." and browser extension by default. https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf

1692 points by tardismechanic 6y ago

This is neat, but search seems to be broken. I loaded one of my repositories and ran global searches for strings I know exist and they came up with no results. After I opened the file in the web editor, the results would appear in subsequent searches.

ibraheemdev 6y ago
It looks like search only works for files that are currently open.
- gbraad 6y ago
  It likely does not pull all the code into localstorage, but only those opened are retrieved as raw? An actual checkout would exceed 1s ;-)
  - chrisco255 6y ago
    Yeah, but you'd think you could pull down the directory without pulling down the files? I mean, I love the project either way, and it's already impressive as-is.
    - gbraad 6y ago
      If you want more, use gitpod.io
dstaley 6y ago
The #1 reason I end up cloning a repo and opening it in VS Code is to perform search, so it's a bummer search doesn't work. I'd even give up on the "1s" bit if I could open a full-text searchable version of the repo.
- renerthr 6y ago
  What do you guys think of vim with fzf? You can also use the `tree` command. And it consumes less RAM, probably. Why is it that VS Code seems to be so popular?
  - dmlittle 6y ago
    It's not that you _can't_ do these things in vim/emacs it's that the experience is different. I'd argue that VS Code is closer to an IDE than just an editor. For example, I can Cmd+Click on a function usage and it takes me to its definition. If I hover my mouse over it it displays information about the variables/function/data structure/etc. If I'm running docker containers I can attach a shell, view its logs, start/stop/restart it with the click of a button. There are thousands of extensions that allow me to augment the user experience – a Terraform extension that allows me to open resource documentation with the click of a button, running diffs on code, running code formatters, etc. Yes, all of this is possible with vim/emacs plugins but its not out of the box and the UX is not the same (and you're lying to yourself if you claim this isn't true). Installing and managing all of these plugins (in vim at least) is a lot more painful. As for the RAM consumption, it's honestly minimal. Running Chrome is more of a resource hog than VS Code.
    - RMPR 6y ago
      > Yes, all of this is possible with vim/emacs plugins but its not out of the box and the UX is not the same (and you're lying to yourself if you claim this isn't true). Installing and managing all of these plugins (in vim at least) is a lot more painful. Nitpicking a bit, but neovim has LSP built-in so you don't really need a plugin to achieve such basic tasks.
      - bern4444 6y ago
        It has built in LSP, but I still need a few plugins to get additional functionality like auto complete, auto import (thanks nvim-compe!), definition preview (lsp-saga) etc. I love nvim too and the direction its going, but the parent comment is correct. Its a lot more painful to set up compared to VSCode.

ibraheemdev 6y ago

This is absolutely amazing! I frequently reference Github repositories while developing so this helps me a lot. Thanks to whoever made this! (side note: I wonder if someone could/has made a similar tool for vim; that way I can stay in the terminal)

drzel 6y ago
Done: https://github.com/drzel/vim-repo-edit https://github.com/drzel/vim-repo-edit

jeswin 6y ago

Very useful, thanks. This will also be handy as a browser plugin - like click on an icon to switch to vscode view.

mrec 6y ago
Don't think it needs a plugin, could just be a one-liner bookmarklet e.g. javascript:window.location.host = "github1s.com";
- eyelidlessness 6y ago
  I think a plugin would actually be great if it doesn’t take you out of your history state. The two views could live in the same page with parallel DOMs. Navigating GH is already iffy for back/forward nav without introducing another host into the mix

haskellandchill 6y ago

Oh VS is just JavaScript, but how exactly does this work? I couldn't tell by reading the code except that it does have src/vs that has what looks like a subset of the Microsoft code files in it.

stevetodd 6y ago

Holy smokes—worked fast and smooth on my phone too! Well done!

reustle 6y ago

This is fabulous. I remember something similar 2 or 3 years ago where you could "log in with github" and create commits using VS Code in the browser. Does anyone remember the name? Is it still alive? Iirc it was a very simple name like "code.org" (but not that).

bdcravens 6y ago
You're thinking of coder.com. I think it has changed a bit and it's not as easy to get started with their service, but you can still host the server yourself: https://github.com/cdr/code-server https://github.com/cdr/code-server
- reustle 6y ago
  Thank you, according to https://coder.com/pricing https://coder.com/pricing > No. Coder Enterprise is not SaaS. It is software that you must deploy and run it on your own infrastructure, either a public or private cloud. That's unfortunate. Very excited to see a SaaS solution by someone soon. Edit: This seems to be what I'm looking for https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/github-codespaces/ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/github-codespace...
  - judge2020 6y ago
    Or, the GitHub feature page itself (same feature as the one you linked via microsoft.com): https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
gbraad 6y ago
Gitpod.io using Theia. And coder.com using code-server
- shuuji3 6y ago
  Recently, we can switch the editor of the Gitpod to the VS Code. Root, Docker and VS Code - https://www.gitpod.io/blog/root-docker-and-vscode/#vs-code https://www.gitpod.io/blog/root-docker-and-vscode/#vs-code

cjohansson 6y ago

Ok one second is an exaggeration and I can't scroll to read in my iPhone, maybe Github10sdesktop would be more realistic. But cool anyway

eyelidlessness 6y ago
Basically the same experience as any Monaco editor on my phone. I’ve recently tried to do quick code experiments on my phone while taking a break on a variety of platforms... basically none are usable. Maybe you were expecting something to be comparable to an existing experience? If so please share.
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  Code Mirror 6 is supposed to be focusing on mobile-first usability: https://codemirror.net/6/ https://codemirror.net/6/ The creator just had a talk at Fosdem a couple days ago too: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/codemirror/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/codemirror/ I am super excited about a usable mobile code editing experience, and am really surprised how much monaco has languished and failed to deliver here.
spockz 6y ago
Scrolling works fine on my iPhone (11). However no keyboard pops up when going to an editor pane. I can move the cursor about though.
- rnotaro 6y ago
  Editing is not a feature yet, even on desktop. That's why your virtual keyboard doesn't appear.

CreepGin 6y ago

Can private repos be supported in any way?

jakereps 6y ago
It appears they could be supported at the moment. In the sidebar there is a GitHub1s Settings menu (the bottom) and in that you can supply your own OAuth/App token to increase your request rate limit, but by delegating access to that token to your private repos you should be able to read your own or chosen/owned private repositories (the caveat being you're giving this app that token outside of a normal OAuth login flow, so I'm not sure how comfortable someone would be with doing that - it seems a normal GitHub OAuth sign in flow could be investigated).

lxe 6y ago

There are software projects that get posted once in a while on HN that are on a completely different level of quality, whether it's product, UX, or tech. This is one of those posts.

stanislavb 6y ago
This one is amazing. I've cloned so many repos locally with the only reason to explore them with the comfort of VS Code.
- news_hacker 6y ago
  I really wish it had Cmd+P support for searching for project files. I find the project a really cool concept, but am genuinely curious what real value this is adding in it's current incarnation? Navigating the folder structure is kinda nice, but I don't see much else. Am I missing something obvious?
  - KiranRao0 6y ago
    Nothing obvious. I've found Cmd+Shift+P, then delete the > character, works extremely well in place of Cmd+P.
  - perryizgr8 6y ago
    > what real value this is adding in it's current incarnation? Ctrl+Shift+F works. I've forgotten how many repos I clone off github just to be able to search all through the code.
    - xmprt 6y ago
      Github allows you to search through repositories as long as they're not forks.
      - perryizgr8 6y ago
        How does that work? I've never been able to find this option. Also, this tool's search is broken. It searches only the currently open file.

zaptheimpaler 6y ago

How does this magic work? Does VS Code run completely in the browser?

brailsafe 6y ago
The desktop app runs on electron, which is Chrome under the covers, so I imagine it doesn't take a tremendous amount of work to just run it straight in the browser.
pid_0 6y ago
I mean, it already basically does
gunn 6y ago
https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
exikyut 6y ago
(Electron = Chromium minus tab bar and window borders)
- momothereal 6y ago
  Plus a Node.js API to interact with the host and create windows, and an IPC system to communicate between the renderer and node processes
qbasic_forever 6y ago
90% of VS Code is typescript that already works fine in the browser. There's just a small layer of nodejs to interface with the local filesystem and run processes. Quite a few projects have existed that pull the core of VS code out into the browser and reimplement the small platform layer on their own: - Eclipse Theia: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia - Coder: https://github.com/cdr/code-server https://github.com/cdr/code-server I'm sure there are countless versions for mobile that are hasty Cordova-based versions of the VS Code core too.

qbasic_forever 6y ago

I wouldn't get too attached to this tool, folks. Github lawyers are not going to be happy with this domain directly infringing on their copyright and are almost certainly at this very minute sending cease and desists. Even if they like the tool and want to see it succeed, the domain is a bit of a fishing and spam risk for them. Best case Github tells them to knock it off and suggests a different domain they use. Gitpod has been around for a few years and offers the exact same service but on a more distinct gitpod.io domain: https://www.gitpod.io/docs/getting-started/#prefixed-url https://www.gitpod.io/docs/getting-started/#prefixed-url

sergiotapia 6y ago

Gamechanger my man! This is so good it warrants a browser extension to add a button to all repos to View in VSCode. Kivubg ut

qbasic_forever 6y ago
Github already has that feature, every repo has an "Edit in Codespaces" button to press: https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
- krrrh 6y ago
  It’s still in early access, so most of us don’t have it yet.

Jarred 6y ago

It’s very impressive how fast this loads. Every time I’ve integrated Monaco (web-based Visual Studio Code), it takes multiple seconds to render. GitHub Codespaces, the official way to open GitHub repos in a web-based Visual Studio Code instance, loads probably 20x slower than this.

qbasic_forever 6y ago
Just briefly browsing the source this is a much more minimal version of VS code--many of the extensions microsoft packages and ships aren't in it. I don't doubt that helps reduce the JS bundle significantly and as a result gives you much speedier loading times. For example there's no terminal or any of its extensions in this version of VS code.
- jachee 6y ago
  Right. That can be done because this is specifically only for reading code with a VSCode interface.
shawnz 6y ago
Codespaces gives you a VM in which you can debug your application, but this service does not appear to do that.
naikrovek 6y ago
Monaco is just the extensible text editor, right? Nothing else, I thought.

breck 6y ago

Thanks, I love it. Also goes to show how GitHub's simple but well thought out url structure continues to pay dividends in unexpected ways.

momothereal 6y ago
Except for branches with slashes in them... https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/issues/22#issuecomment-775979581 https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/issues/22#issuecomment-7...

Jarred 6y ago

Feature request: make CMD+P support searching files in the repository. Currently, it shows "No matching results". To implement this quickly client-side, one easy way would be to use jsdelivr's data api. For example, to get the directory tree for Ruby on Rails: https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/package/gh/rails/rails@06e8d5c29fa9cce83cd99cefed2d135094584acd/flat https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/package/gh/rails/rails@06e8d5c2...

madeofpalk 6y ago
Maybe the shortcut is different in the browser on macOS, but on Windows CTRL + P just works for searching the project, like it does in VSCode proper on desktop. I quickly did ctrl + shift + f to search as well and it worked well
bewareandaware 6y ago
It looks like it works for previously opened files. Perhaps the author didn't want to load the whole tree into the browser, or maybe its a limitation on webhosted vscode?
- thw0rted 6y ago
  I suspect that the author didn't want to eager-load all files because the API they're using is rate-limited -- 60 requests/hr when unauthenticated, or 5000/hr if you generate a unique OAuth token. Even that 5k could get burned through pretty quickly for a larger repo, assuming you have to make at least one request per file.

the_arun 6y ago

Pretty cool, but I would assume this depends on internet speed for left nav items? no?

bachmeier 6y ago

While this is a move in the right direction, Gitlab has had a similar feature for years, and it's not read-only.

dtrailin 6y ago
How does this feature work on Gitlab? Can you link a doc? Is it VS code as well?
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  See: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/ https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/ It's a lightly re-skinned version of the monaco code editor that VS code also uses. It looks and feels like VS code.

blackoil 6y ago

Brilliant!! Github should make it first class. Most times, I don't need full power of codespace, something leaner(free) just to browse code will be awesome.

Garbage 6y ago

This is brilliant. CodeSandbox also has this. For example, you can import this project in CodeSandbox using link https://githubbox.com/conwnet/github1s https://githubbox.com/conwnet/github1s (adding box between github and .com) https://codesandbox.io/docs/importing https://codesandbox.io/docs/importing

gremlinsinc 6y ago
godda*n this could've saved me so much time... thanks though!

est 6y ago

This would break some github's geo-blocking repos.

akmittal 6y ago

Github has Codespaces in early release (https://github.com/codespaces/ https://github.com/codespaces/), but much faster

mizzao 6y ago
That gives a 404.
- twsted 6y ago
  You need to be invited to try
- sodality2 6y ago
  https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces is the info page
thundergolfer 6y ago
I've been using Codespaces recently, and most recently with PyTorch. Accessing https://github1s.com/pytorch/pytorch https://github1s.com/pytorch/pytorch is _much_ faster than accessing PyTorch through Codespaces (because former is a read-only IDE), so this site is useful beyond Codespaces.

chii 6y ago

it'd be interesting to have language servers also working (i wonder if it's possible to run language servers as local service workers on the browser), so that you can also navigate via symbols.

samzer 6y ago

Would it be possible to view personal private respository code with this? I'm not sure what it would take to make that happen.

naikrovek 6y ago
I'm not sure that would make sense for this tool. This tool is to quickly investigate a codebase you've never seen through the façade of a familiar tool. A "personal private repository" isn't code that you've never seen or are unfamiliar with.
- BorisEm 6y ago
  My organization has hundreds of private repos. It would be great to use this tool to explore those.
  - kjakm 6y ago
    +1. This would be an incredibly useful tool when I have to search private company repos I'm unfamiliar with. Currently I use GitHub's 'search current repo' functionality but it's not great.
    - rmorey 6y ago
      SourceGraph? https://about.sourcegraph.com/ https://about.sourcegraph.com/
      - kjakm 6y ago
        Interesting product, thanks!
  - naikrovek 6y ago
    Note the "personal" qualifier in the comment.
- janpot 6y ago

abalone 6y ago

This is cool and I hope they don’t run into copyright issues with the domain, which they probably will. Trademark lawyers basically have to go after violations otherwise they risk losing control of the mark. Maybe GitHub could be nice and license it to the project for free.

jwr 6y ago
This was my first thought as well, I would not be happy if people started to use my business name in similar-looking domains. Also, you have to defend your trademark.

lostintangent 6y ago

If folks are interested in browsing (and editing) GitHub repos in VS Code without cloning, the GistPad extension might be worth checking out: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-contrib.gistfs#repositories https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-con.... It’s not necessarily as convenient as a web client, but it lets you work from your existing/customized editor setup (e.g. theme, keybindings), and it supports editing, branches, commenting, etc.

Gehinnn 6y ago
I love it! You can also author commits with it! I'm missing some really easy way to open a github repository though, ideally a button on github next to clone, like "Open with GistPad".

lifeplusplus 6y ago

would be cool if you could fork the repo and make pr

vemv 6y ago

github1s.com doesn't seem a very fortunate domain name as it's obviously based on github.com - it's well plausible that it will be taken down sooner or later.

Gehinnn 6y ago
Afaik raw.githubusercontent.com was third party as well and lived for a very long time.
- carlosperate 6y ago
  How did it end up being absorved by GitHub? The "raw" button in the file views use that domain now.
- jkcxn 6y ago
  That's official, you're thinking of https://rawgit.com/ https://rawgit.com/

rahulpadalkar 6y ago

This is insane!!!!!!!!!!!

avipars 6y ago

not sure the benefit, but it does work well

wly_cdgr 6y ago

That was more than one second. Fail.

jcul 6y ago

Amazing. It even works great on my phone. This is one of the best things I've seen on hacker news.

Gehinnn 6y ago

If you like the text editor that powers VS Code (Monaco) and would like to use it for writing Markdown on github, check out my foss chrome/Firefox browser extension [1]! It replaces all text areas with a Monaco editor. [1] https://github.com/hediet/browser-ext-github-monaco https://github.com/hediet/browser-ext-github-monaco

dairylee 6y ago
Seems like a cool extension, will give it a try. Reminds me of the GhostText[1] extension I used to use for Sublime to sync an input field with my editor. [1]https://github.com/GhostText/GhostText https://github.com/GhostText/GhostText
- Gehinnn 6y ago
  That is a cool project, thanks for sharing!
GSGBen 6y ago
This would be incredible on Trello!
- Gehinnn 6y ago
  I never used Trello, what would make this great there? Shouldn't be too hard to implement!
  - faeyanpiraat 6y ago
    Trello uses a basic textarea for ticket description editing, which makes it a pain for anything more complicated than it is intended to be used for, which severely limits it's use cases.
snak 6y ago
Looks great, I'll give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
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miki123211 6y ago

This is amazing for accessibility. Github's own interface is kinda meh with screen readers. This is much better.

S0und 6y ago

This link showed up on /r/programming yesterday. Everyone is freaking out that the domain is registered from China. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lfpngg/explore_github_source_code_right_on_the_web/gmodnwk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lfpngg/explore... hackernews doesn't seems to care, which is ironic in many levels.

apples_oranges 6y ago
Can you explain the irony? Just trying to get a feeling for the whole China thing.. For example I have noticed that some people have a lowly view of TikTok because it's Chinese. I understand the privacy aspect of it, I don't trust Chinas data policies myself (and slightly more trust ours or rather our ability to implement them securely), but is there also a factor of "the Chinese are getting really good at inventing things", too?

vemv 6y ago

I enjoyed replicating just now an analogously fast workflow that shallow-clones a git repo and then opens it in my GUI IDE from the terminal without any other clicking around being necessary. So I can `pbpaste | git_clone_and_open_in_ide` and be done.

metahost 6y ago

Could not get it to work with private repos even after using an API token, is it supported?

beyti 6y ago
Same here, that would be a really useful thing for my organization.
swashbuck1r 6y ago
I was able to test github1s for private repos after generating a personal access token, and pasting it into the Set OAuth Token screen (via little github1s icon in the sidebar). After this was correctly configured, the "Status" indicator on the welcome page turned green and now says "Authorized" (instead of the yellow "Unauthorized" that I initially saw)

funman7 6y ago

Yes I need this for bitbucket.

funman7 6y ago

Yes I need this in my life, for Bitbucket.

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drusepth 6y ago

I'm confused how to use this. Do I need VS Code installed and/or do I need to open the URL through VS Code? The readme doesn't seem to offer much guidance, and any time I visit any 1s repo (even the example https://github1s.com/microsoft/vscode https://github1s.com/microsoft/vscode link in the readme), I just see a blank, white page. People are talking about loading pages on mobile, so it doesn't seem like VSC is needed...

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progval 6y ago
I don't have VSCode installed at all, and I don't get the blank page. Did you check the debug console of your browser for errors? Also check you have Javascript enabled.
- drusepth 6y ago
  Ah, I do indeed have console errors. https://i.imgur.com/19gU4tl.png https://i.imgur.com/19gU4tl.png On Chrome 80 / Ubuntu, FWIW. Was under the impression optional chaining was valid JS without transpiling, but who knows. Either way, loaded it up just fine on my Windows box to check out -- looks super useful!
hobofan 6y ago
You are either encountering a bug then, or your internet might be too slow? I also see a blank white page for a split second until the editor/viewer loads up.

_pmf_ 6y ago

Why not make GitHub fast? Why do I have to use an editor embedding a web browser instead of using a web browser?

spark3k 6y ago

This is brilliant. Should be a core part of GitHub

randompwd 6y ago
No it shouldn't. IDEs come and go.

kaladin_1 6y ago

Cudos! You have motivated more than a few today. This is big push to really do one thing very well. This by far ticks the box for the best project I've seen this year. Perfect UI/UX clone. Search functionality is very close to desktop VS Code. Even mind-blowing is the loading speed. At this age and time where some blogs take 2mins to load.

zeusk 6y ago
Because this is literally the vscode editor (monaco?) pointed to the github repo, with a github fs backing?

geniium 6y ago

Really nice product

baby 6y ago

That’s it. Black magic. That’s what all of us wanted, that’s what we thought would happen with advances in technology, it just happened!

wrboyce 6y ago

This is really cool, and has inspired the latest function to be added to my zshrc: vscodetmp () { local repo=$1 [[ ! $repo =~ "https://*" ]] && repo="https://github.com/${repo}" local temp="$(mktemp -d)" git clone "${repo}" "${temp}" code --wait -n "${temp}" rm -rf "${temp}" }

jasonlfunk 6y ago
I love this, thanks.
thepete2 6y ago
Now you need a function to move it to a permanent location if you like the project and want to keep it or contribute.
- gbraad 6y ago
  Gitpod.io
jeffreygoesto 6y ago
Why not "--single-branch" when cloning? Couldn't it speed up cloning if there are many branches?
- Tobu 6y ago
  --depth=1 (shallow clone, and implies --single-branch)

spion 6y ago

Really cool concept, however language service and file search don't quite work (even for TypeScript projects) due to lazy loading of files and directories. Still, its almost there! Can't wait!

whitecrow90 6y ago

Fantastic <3

DangerousPie 6y ago

This made me think that VS Code should really just have a "View Github Repository" option where you paste the URL and it opens something like this, except in the normal desktop app. If you want to be elaborate you could even have support for making changes.

robenkleene 6y ago
If you have the Visual Studio Codespaces extension installed (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vsonline.vsonline https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vsonl...), then GitHub Codespaces (https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces currently in beta) gets you a workflow pretty close to this.
- rnotaro 6y ago
  I wish it was available for orgs private repos.
wallabyjs 6y ago
Check out Dingo extension for VS Code, does exactly that for GitHub URLs + for npm packages by name too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WallabyJs.dingo-vscode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WallabyJ...

ddtaylor 6y ago

That domain name is probably going to run them in trouble though =/

bilekas 6y ago

I was a little bit confused reading what this project was.. It's early and was thinking it was some VSCode extension thinking : "Okay, kinda quirky but big deal?" Then it hit me.. This is outstanding!

lynxaegon 6y ago

Thanks for this one! I really needed something like this to explore github repos.

jack_riminton 6y ago

Brilliant!

offtop5 6y ago

I'd love to see this hosted internally and used for code reviews. Very cool project !

ghego1 6y ago

This is incredibly cool!!! I don't know to what extent this is affiliated to GitHub, but if it is not it should be definitely bought/incorporated

nicomeemes 6y ago

This is awesome, would be great if there was a chrome extension or addon for Octotree, so you could click a button to open the repo.

mbar84 6y ago

With the leverage we're all getting out of the Monaco editor component, can somebody give that team at Microsoft a Touring award or something?

aflag 6y ago

Really nice! Is there any way to enable light mode? I find dark mode hard to read.

yutsun 6y ago

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jonas_kgomo 6y ago

This is similar to the idea of Codespaces from Github https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces

AltruisticGapHN 6y ago

How does this compare to Octotree browser extension in terms of main uses?

soheil 6y ago

It is shocking to me to read the number of comments saying how this is tier 1 UI and how amazing of a job the author has done with the UX and comments praising the UI/UX. Wtf happened to HN? This is a fucking wrapper around an open source text editor, there is zero UI by the author.

schrute 6y ago
> Wtf happened to HN? > This is a fucking wrapper around an open source text editor People like you are no longer receive attention for shouting and throwing a tantrum. You and your negative comments are drowned out. So, what happened to HN? It has improved. Hop aboard and take a swig of positivity buddy.
- slingnow 6y ago
  He's commenting on the fact that no one here seems to understand the author did ZERO UI/UX WORK. He wrapped an existing tool. Made something incredibly useful, but wrapped an existing tool. The praise is completely misguided. I prefer a world where people get praise for something praiseworthy. Not an army of people who say things like "take a swig of positivity buddy".
  - Splendor 6y ago
    In that case, I regret that I'm unable to offer you praise for your comment.
icholy 6y ago
wtf are you talking about? I don't see any comments praising the author for writing the UI.
- zufallsheld 6y ago
  See this top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26087077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26087077

therealmarv 6y ago

Search broken. So what is the benefit?

soheil 6y ago

It'd be nice if it could lazily clone the repo in the background so the search functionality would work as more files are indexed.

ChrisArchitect 6y ago

this is great/neat but took me awhile to understand what it was from the name. One second implies time of reading or...I dunno it's just confusing/unclear.

qwertywert_ 6y ago

Is it safe to just give this an OAuth token for private repo access?

altilunium 6y ago

I'm trying to reverse engineer how it works.. It is a static webpage, hosted on Github Pages https://conwnet.github.io/github1s https://conwnet.github.io/github1s And, here is the static webpage source-code: https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/blob/gh-pages/404.html https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/blob/gh-pages/404.html

softmarshmallow 6y ago
See under extensions/ https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf It's basically all custom scripts to replace extra code to origin vscode repo.

naqushab 6y ago

What a nice feature. Octotree[1] is a Chrome extension which does that fantastically. It also supports Enterprise Github in Pro version. [1] https://www.octotree.io/ https://www.octotree.io/

softmarshmallow 6y ago

I found github.surf github.surf this works same as github1s, but i like it more for no reason lol. e.g. github.surf/matchabot/matcha-bot

softmarshmallow 6y ago

how about https://github.surf/ https://github.surf/. ? This supports also CLI "surf ." and browser extension by default. https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf