skills-copilot-codespaces-vscode/.github/steps/4-copilot-comment.md

Step 4: Using comments to generate code with Copilot

Nicely done utilizing the Copilot tab! 🥳

You now have leveraged the Copilot quick tab auto-suggest as well as the Copilot hub to accept AI generated suggestions.

Now lets see how you can leverage comments to generate Copilot suggestions!

⌨️ Activity: Pull the latest code to the Codespace repo.

Note

Pull MUST be done prior to the next activity.

1. Use the VS Code terminal to pull the latest code:

   git pull
   

⌨️ Activity: Generate Copilot suggested code from comments.

1. From inside the codespace in the VS Code explorer window, create a new file. (If you closed the Codespace from above, please open it back up or create a new Codespace.)

2. Name the file comments.js.

3. Type the following comment into the file:

   // Create web server
   

4. Press enter to go to a new line.

5. Copilot will suggest a code block.

6. Hover over the red squiggly and select the ...

   Note

   If you don't see the copilot code block suggestion or the red squiggly and the three dots ..., you can type control + enter to bring up the GitHub Copilot completions panel.

7. Click Open Completions Panel. Copilot will synthesise around 10 different code suggestions. You should see something like this:

8. Find a solution you like and click Accept Solution.

9. Your comments.js file will be updated with your solution.

⌨️ Activity: Push code to your repository from the codespace

1. Use the VS Code terminal to add the comments.js file to the repository:

   git add comments.js
   

2. Next from the VS Code terminal stage and commit the changes to the repository:

   git commit -m "Copilot third commit"
   

3. Finally from the VS Code terminal push to code to the repository:

   git push
   

Wait about 60 seconds then refresh your repository landing page for the next step.