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have_faith
How do you play the game?
lucasmullens
git clone, make sure TypeScript is installed, and open src/index.ts

Would be nice if this was exported to some TypeScript playground environment.

yakkomajuri
Easiest is to just press `.` on the GitHub repo to open the GH dev environment
zander312
wtf! I had no idea this existed!
TillE
I'm really surprised I've never even discovered that accidentally. If nothing else, this is a vastly superior way to search a repository.
culi
It was added about a year ago so it's fairly recent. Before this another group had made this same thing on a different website (turns out a big advantage of Electron apps is they can be converted to web apps without TOO much difficulty). With that one you'd just replace the domain of the URL with whatever that website was
trevor-e
wait... WHAT!? how is such an amazing feature hidden behind some incredibly obscure keyboard shortcut? this completely changes how I'll explore Github.
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ppradhan
what am I doing wrong. 'press . on the Github repo' ?
unsafecast
Just open the repository and type a dot on your keyboard. You don't need to select anything.
n1c
With the page open in your browser, press the "." key on your keyboard.
auggierose
Too bad there is no such thing as HN comment of the week, this would be it.
bilalq
I never get tired of seeing fun little things like this. Is there a way to make VSCode not truncate the type info?
dschuessler
What a beautiful little treat. For everyone curious, it took me less than ten minutes to play through. Well done!
notjustanymike
Weirdly, a spider killing me isn't the worst thing I've seen written in Typescript.
JohnDotAwesome
For those wanting a TS Playground link: https://tinyurl.com/mw6pbpht
frabjoused
I made a PR to add this link to the readme.
noduerme
This is neat. Can someone explain why the generic types extending string need to default to any in all these cases, like: `TDescription extends string = any` ?
cacozen
It’s just so I can later reuse that type without having to pass in the generic. Like I do on lines 41 and 42
koshergweilo
An interesting tidbit that I found in the source code is that it only accepts integers from 1 to 20. Perfectly sufficient for its use case, although not quite extendable as I would hope
durnygbur
So which one should now one study - TypeScript type system, RxJS operators, or the next generation of vomit produced by the Angular team? Together they compose extremely unfunny clusterfuck. For now my CVs all fall into a black hole, you better not fall off the employment train.