github-code Web Component

Why it matters

This covers a coding tool or code-capability update — useful for developers assessing workflow changes and reusable value.

An experimental Web Component built using GPT-5.5 and the following prompt :

let's build a Web Component for embedding code from GitHub

It takes URLs like that, converts them to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/sqlite-ast/437c759129154f05296324a7f82aa1246340dd14/sqlite_ast/parser.py, then uses fetch() to fetch them and displays the specified range of lines - with line numbers, no syntax highlighting though

Show me a preview web browser so I can see your work

Here's what it looks like embedded on this page:

TopicsGitHubOpen source

Keywords#component#code#web

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