What is a Codespace? 🤔

GitHub Codespaces gives you a ready-to-code environment online. You can run fully-featured Visual Studio Code on the web, instead of your own computer. If you’re having installation struggles, it’s a great alternative so you can just start coding!

Codespaces is an online version of Visual Studio Code (with some extra features), so you can follow along with any examples/demos that use Visual Studio Code.

Getting Started 🏁

To start, make sure you have created and are logged into your GitHub account.

Next, use this link to immediately create a new blank Codespace. Click **Create Codespace** to initialize the workspace.

How it works 💻

Now you can use the Codespace as if it’s your local machine, including terminal commands and creating new folders. Any commits you make on this machine will store the code in your repository on GitHub as well!