jcowey/vs-coder repository overview

⁠VS Coder

⁠Base on CDR's coder server⁠

• Code on your Chromebook, tablet, and laptop with a consistent dev environment.
  • If you have a Windows or Mac workstation, more easily develop for Linux.
• Take advantage of large cloud servers to speed up tests, compilations, downloads, and more.
• Preserve battery life when you're on the go.
  • All intensive computation runs on your server.
  • You're no longer running excess instances of Chrome.

⁠Getting Started

⁠Run over SSH

Use sshcode⁠ for a simple setup.

⁠Binaries

1. Download a binary⁠ (Linux and OS X supported. Windows coming soon)

2. Start the binary with the project directory as the first argument

   code-server <initial directory to open>
   

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   You will be prompted to enter the password shown in the CLI code-server should now be running at https://localhost:8443⁠.

   code-server uses a self-signed SSL certificate that may prompt your browser to ask you some additional questions before you proceed. Please read here⁠ for more information.

For detailed instructions and troubleshooting, see the self-hosted quick start guide⁠.

Quickstart guides for Google Cloud⁠, AWS⁠, and DigitalOcean⁠.

How to secure your setup⁠.

⁠Development

⁠Known Issues

• Creating custom VS Code extensions and debugging them doesn't work.

⁠Extensions

At the moment we can't use the official VSCode Marketplace. We've created a custom extension marketplace focused around open-sourced extensions. However, if you have access to the .vsix file, you can manually install the extension.

⁠License

MIT⁠