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code-server

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Hosted vs code server is what I used to use: https://github.com/coder/code-server They've added support in blink as well which is my favorite iOS purchase for productivity on…

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2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	36	2	34
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2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	6	1	5
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tentacleuno·Nov 24, 2021

I would also mention code-server[0], created by Coder[1] for their hosted VSCode service. You can self-host it with Docker and login from outside your network. [0]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server [1]: coder.com

In What's the Future of IDEs?

dividedbyzero·Oct 28, 2021

I've been trying to build a remote dev setup using code-server [1] on a 2017-ish iPad Pro 10.5" and a Logitech K380 keyboard for when travelling and when on the indoor bike. I have code-server running in a big fat docker container with language SDKs, utilities, fish shell with custom prompt, etc. installed as well, and it works great in a desktop browser, but I can't quite get it to be fully usable on the iPad. It seems this still has a bunch of very rough edges. Using code-server in iPad Safari means Cmd+N etc. won't work and also losing very precious display real estate to Safari's UI. Adding it to the home screen and launching from there solves that, but now switching to Safari and back causes keyboard input to stop registering at all in code-server. The Serverediter [2] app doesn't have that issue, but its UI and parts of the code-ser

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ver UI will jump around for a second when Cmd-Tab-ing to it, which is pretty unnerving. Then there's connectivity: Apparently background SSH tunnels get killed by iOS after a while. Serverediter has its own SSH client, but port-forwarding any other ports than code-server's doesn't seem to work. Not being able to expose a running web service on my local device makes lots of things infeasible. Maybe I'd need a separate VPN between the code-server machine and my iPad? But that adds more complexity to an already quite complex setup. And finally, https with self-signed certs isn't exactly a walk in the park with iPads (I can't use letsencrypt), but without it I believe the clipboard won't work right. I realize there are SaaS offers that will make some (or most?) of these issues go away, but those don't seem to be all that customizable, and since I'd use this for personal projects that don't earn any money, keeping costs down is a priority as well (so if I can self-host on hardware I already have, I'd rather do that). So while I totally get the appeal, I really wonder how others make it work for them. It doesn't seem to be quite as straight-forward as the blog posts made it look. 1: https://github.com/cdr/code-server 2: https://servediter.app/

In Reflections on software development from anywhere on an iPad

xtf·Oct 21, 2021

https://github.com/cdr/code-server

In Visual Studio Code in Browser

xnyan·Oct 20, 2021

>https://github.com/cdr/code-server This may be what you're looking for? An agent runs on the development computer, and you get everything that it has (debugging, compilation, etc).

In Vscode.dev

moonchrome·Oct 20, 2021

But this is already far better if you use code server [1] because you get your extensions/compilers/etc. running on the same host This particular implementation (opening local files via browser) sounds rather useless. [1] https://github.com/cdr/code-server

In Vscode.dev

up6w6·Oct 20, 2021

Not open-source yet, the best alternatives for self-hosting right now are: https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server https://github.com/cdr/code-server Update: also check the discussion about their differences https://github.com/cdr/code-server/discussions/4267 (IMO both are much slower and worse than vscode.dev)

In Vscode.dev

afarviral·Oct 16, 2021

Cool. Definitely saving this. Id like to self-host a cloud dev environment. Ive been curious about https://github.com/cdr/code-server similarly.

In Coder: The self-hosted GitHub Codespaces alternative

cstrat·Oct 14, 2021

There is an open source implementation of this you can just spin up in docker. https://github.com/cdr/code-server I've been using it for a couple of years now. It's been amazing for me. Run a server at home and I can just edit stuff on the fly via browser from where ever I am.

In MoonHome: Remote Development Environment

tomvault·Sep 28, 2021

Johannes from Gitpod here. I've answered this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682477 (copied below) Essentially, we run nightly builds at OpenVSCode Server making it as upstream to VS Code as possible. In contrast to other forks the whole scope of the project is to add a minimal set of changes (specifics about what we added https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc...) The architecture we use powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces. Several of the devs and organisations that have asked for our implementation & now have adopted OpenVSCode Server referenced the following issue at Code-Server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3835).

In How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE

smivan·Sep 28, 2021

How is this different from https://github.com/cdr/code-server ?

In How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE

tomvault·Sep 28, 2021

Johannes here from Gitpod. Shared some background about differences on Twitter already: https://twitter.com/jolandgraf/status/1442850063953313805?s=... Essentially, we run nightly builds at OpenVSCode Server making it as upstream to VS Code as possible. In contrast to other forks the whole scope of the project is to add a minimal set of changes (specifics about what we added https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc...) The architecture we use powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces. Several of the devs and organisations that have asked for our implementation & now have adopted OpenVSCode Server referenced the following issue at Code-Server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3835).

In VS Code in the Browser for Everyone

chenzhekl·Sep 28, 2021

Pretty cool project. I am wondering how it is different from code-server [1]? [1] https://github.com/cdr/code-server

In VS Code in the Browser for Everyone

oneweekwonder·Sep 6, 2021

I wonder why coder.com[0] is not mentioned, the ide is also open-source[1]. As for cloud9 they closed their source and license when they moved to v3, but there is still a v2 descendant called Pylon IDE[3]. [0]: https://coder.com/ [1]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server [3]: https://github.com/pylonide/pylon

In GitHub Codespaces vs. Gitpod: Choosing the Best Online Code Editor

up6w6·Sep 3, 2021

What are the key differences between Gitpod's vscode and Coder's code-server[1] ? It seems that competition would be a lot easier if Microsoft just adds codespace's features directly to vscode. [1] https://github.com/cdr/code-server

In Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces

lolive·Sep 3, 2021

VSCode in the browser is available as a standalone server [in case you need to deploy it in your ways]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server License: MIT It works insanely well.

In Web-based editor

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