Plus how to install a viewer

Sixty-five million developers and three million organizations can’t be wrong. GitHub hosts over 200 million code repositories and is the development platform of choice for individual programmers and companies around the world. Developers use GitHub to build, maintain, and even distribute their software, allowing users like you to download files and view code directly from GitHub.

GitHub makes it easy to download and view an app's source code. This guide shows you how to download files directly from GitHub's website so you can view a project's code yourself.

Before you download code, you need to install a program that can view that code. Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source, and streamlined code editor that allows users to view and debug code and perform tasks.