On Microsoft Github, in a repository such as https://github.com/nodejs/node press `.` (the full stop key) and it will take you away to github.dev, load Microsoft's VS Code in-browser to view and edit code with VS Code plugins and highlighting.

And from there you can use GitHub Codespace to "develop in a cloud-hosted, customizable environment" to run and debug.

And you can't even hit the back button. Incredible.

Apologies, I just read my comment again...

To be clear, I'm talking about the VSCode app. Once you visit it they hijack the browser history and hitting back causes the entire app to reload, over and over again, until you manually drop down the history menu and jump 2+ pages back.

I realize now my comment sounded rude and pointed toward the parent (not at all the intent) - I can't edit it so here I am again.

hit it twice. is that the point? def not, but i got it to go back

Perhaps I wasn't fast enough, but it didn't work for me.

They can do their primary directive to act as public centralized vcs repositories.

The proposition here is that the IDE provides dev process tooling so you are in fact collaborating with your team, e.g. reviewing your code, but Github (Microsoft) and other centralized services are not necessary and not included in the activity. And yes, if AWS etc goes down, your IDEs will continue to work and you can continue to collaborate.

GitHub == Microsoft and has been for a while.