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Using GitHub Copilot on GitHub.com - GitHub Tutorial
From the course: Supercharge the Development Process with GitHub Extensions for Copilot Chat
Using GitHub Copilot on GitHub.com
- GitHub now allows you to use Copilot inside the regular github.com website, giving you access to full chatbot capabilities that can be used to ask questions about coding, but also about specific repos and even run Copilot extensions directly from the platform. To use it, you can find the GitHub Copilot icon on the website right here. And once you click on that, you can start asking questions. Now remember that Copilot is an add-on to your main GitHub subscription, so of course, you won't be able to see these features unless you have that activated. You can see that you can choose a specific repository to start asking questions about, but you can still ask questions that are more generic in nature. So I'm going to say, can you show me popular JavaScript frameworks? And it's going to answer generic questions like that, no problem. Let's try something else. Do you know what my most used node modules are? And as you can see, it doesn't necessarily answer everything. Certain types of…