leask/code-server-nodejs repository overview

⁠code-server-nodejs

code-server-nodejs is VS Code⁠ with Node.js⁠ development environment running on a remote server, accessible through the browser.

Based on code-server⁠ and VS Code⁠.

Try it out:

docker run -it -p 127.0.0.1:8443:8443 -v "${PWD}:/home/coder/project" leask/code-server-nodejs --allow-http --no-auth

• 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

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

⁠Docker

See docker oneliner mentioned above. Dockerfile is at /Dockerfile⁠.

Quickstart guides for Google Cloud⁠, AWS⁠, and Digital Ocean⁠.

⁠How to secure your setup⁠?

code-server-nodejs 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.

⁠Development

⁠Known Issues

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

⁠Future

• Stay up to date! Get notified about new releases of code-server-nodejs.
• Windows support.
• Electron and Chrome OS applications to bridge the gap between local<->remote.
• Run VS Code unit tests against our builds to ensure features work as expected.

⁠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.

⁠Telemetry

Use the --disable-telemetry flag or set DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true to disable tracking ENTIRELY.

code-server (NOT code-server-nodejs) use data collected to improve code-server.

⁠License

MIT⁠