Security News > 2021 > August > Microsoft announces Visual Studio Code for the Web public preview
Microsoft has announced the public preview launch of Visual Studio Code for the Web, a browser-based version of its free and cross-platform VS Code integrated development environment.
"Announcing the preview of Visual Studio Code for the Web, a new web-based code editor that runs entirely in your browser and without backing compute," the company announced today.
"Everyone can use VS Code for the Web for free at https://vscode.dev to quickly open and browse source code hosted on GitHub and on your local machine, and make and commit lightweight changes."
Those who need a more complete Visual Studio Code experience can upgrade to a GitHub Codespaces instance, allowing them to debug and build code, as well as use VS Code extensions and the integrated terminal.
Today, the Visual Studio Code team also released VS Code 1.60 for desktop platforms, which introduced workbench automatic language detection, editor inline suggestions in auto-complete, and support for TypeScript 4.4.
Today's Visual Studio Code for the Web comes after GitHub also introduced its own browser-hosted editor available at github.