microsoft / microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
README: “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge points to open.vscode.dev (DNS/NXDOMAIN)
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Description
What’s wrong
Clicking the “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge in README goes to:
https://open.vscode.dev/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
This fails with DNS/NXDOMAIN for many users.
Expected
It should open the repo in VS Code for the Web.
Proposed fix
Change the badge target to:
https://vscode.dev/github/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
Repro steps
- Open README
- Click “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge
- Observe DNS/NXDOMAIN error
Willing to contribute
Yes — I will submit a PR for this one-line change.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Open README and locate the “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge. Update its target from open.vscode.dev to vscode.dev/github/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners, then click the badge or inspect the rendered link to verify it opens the repository in VS Code for the Web.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- vscode
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100