Terminal
One of the benefits of working on CodeSandbox Repositories is running the terminal without ever leaving the Web Editor. The Terminal DevTool is connected to a Virtual Machine and behaves like your local terminal, accepting any commands you are used to running, such as:
- git operations
- bash scripts
- package-management commands
- start servers
Besides opening a fresh instance, you can also see other people's terminals. This is especially useful when someone on your team encounters errors or has a hard time fixing a problem. You can quickly jump in and instantly understand what is going on.
Because each branch is a new environment, commands you run in the terminal will not affect other branches.
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If you need to run commands that depend on sudo/root access,
check out our tutorial about using nix