Where is Visual Studio Online Monaco?

Question

I've recently been using Visual Studio Online 'Monaco' to edit an AngularJS application that I have hosted as an Azure website. I want to use Monaco as it has in-browser typescript support.

As far as I can tell the only place to get to Visual Studio Online 'Monaco' is via a well hidden link on an associated Azure Website's Dashboard, down the bottom of the page on the right hand side.

E.g. the final access url ends up being:

https://your-website-dev.scm.azurewebsites.net/dev/wwwroot/app/scripts/services/sampleService.ts

Is this the only place to get to Monaco?

It appears to be a good alternative to Cloud 9 and Nitrous.io for development of Typescript and .Net solutions but I'd like a more Nitrous.io style way of setting up dev environments. e.g. log in, clone from github, start coding.

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Edit: From replies over time to this question...

As of Dec 2015 Visual Studio Code is an excellent locally hosted version similar to Atom but with a Visual Studio vibe, and cross platform:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

As of July 2015 an option in the Azure Web App Dashboard has appeared.

To enable Visual Studio Online for a web app:

• Go to the 'configure' tab of the web app
• Switch the 'EDIT IN VISUAL STUDIO ONLINE' on, click Save
• An 'Edit in Visual Studio' option appears on the dashboard tab under the 'quick glance' area
• Clicking on this takes you to the VSO pointing at your web app
  • Note: If you deploy via git etc your vso changes may be overwritten

Answer 1

As of July 2016 in the new portal

This has been renamed to App Service Editor.

App Services => Your App => Tools => App Service Editor (Preview)

Click go in the panel that opens up to navigate to

https://yourapp.scm.azurewebsites.net/dev/wwwroot/

Update to add pic (by Luke)