code-server

Does code-server[1] meet your needs? It's self hosted and has been meeting by (albeit) hobbyist needs well. [1] https://github.com/coder/code-server

Darn. Maybe the solution is to use vs-code client in the browser? Like vscode.dev or https://github.com/coder/code-server ? It limits what keyboard shortcuts and extensions are available, but at least it's in a secure sandbox on the client side.

Code server might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/coder/code-server The caveat with the above is that you'll need something to host it. You could use a computer on your local network or a VPS of some kind (DigitalOcean, Linode, etc all have cheaper plans for hosting). Once you get Code Server running, you can add the URL to your homepage to remove the Safari URL bar.

code-server https://github.com/coder/code-server works fairly well and can be saved to the home screen as a web applet to get rid of the browser URL bar. Their are a few UI issues related to touch but it has served well enough for some light work. You can also use a remote apps like Rainway/TeamViewer/RDP/VNC somewhat successfully to get a more full desktop experience. Unfortunately they all seem to have their own input caveats that take some getting used to. I am personally waiting for Parsec to release native iPadOS and tvOS clients as it provides the best experience I have found. It seems like the gaming oriented remote desktop apps (Rainway https://rainway.com/, Parsec https://parsec.app/) are the best though as the latency on the more traditional ones is somewhat of a hindrance. USB/Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support tends to work

HARDWARE SIDE: The cheapest will be to ... not buy laptop. You can go for 2 in 1 and use your Android phone (if you have one) or buy one. Any Android phone will do the job, but best look for one with USB3.1 (these will support display port on phones USB socket) as it carries video signal as well. Here you have phones released in 2021 and 2022 supporting it: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2021&sFreeTex... If you want to go for used phone feel free to refine search and set older years. Portable screen you can get on Chinese websites for as little as 80-150USD (with shipping including) Then get yourself bluetooth keyboard with trackpad (there are even foldable ones), or BT keyboard and BT mouse (whatever you like) and you should be already good. Nice to have is also USB-C hub with HDMI output, so you can plug any wired USB de

Code-server: https://github.com/coder/code-server

what do you actually want to do? I have https://github.com/coder/code-server and https://jupyter.org/hub running on a PI, along with tailscale on the ipad and pi. This allows the IPAD to have a full editor, and a shell onto the pi.

Creator of the original https://github.com/coder/code-server and co-founder of https://coder.com here. Microsoft’s code-server uses their official extension marketplace, allowing LiveShare, Pylance, and other proprietary extensions in their browser VS Code experience. Their license prevents users from “hosting it as a service” meaning you can’t productize their code-server like you can ours. We’re disappointed that Microsoft chose to release under the `code-server` command-line name. Our community has produced countless blog posts, videos, StackOverflow questions, etc. that will become difficult for our users to find. This naming decision suggests that Microsoft aims to replace our code-server instead of coexisting. We will continue developing our code-server until Microsoft’s has parity. As for Coder, we’re focusing more on the platform

I wonder why the people at Microsoft don't credit code-server which has been around for much longer than their offering. https://github.com/coder/code-server

I'm not sure this is going to work for you though, it seems to make you go through a tunnel service that MS is running on vscode.dev. Look at the flow they describe and it has you getting an auth code after github login and using that code on vscode.dev to access the server instance. If you haven't seen it already coder has a nice VS code server instance that runs like a traditional self-hosted server app and could likely be run in an airgapped environment: https://github.com/coder/code-server

While not a Microsoft offering, code-server[1] already exists and works pretty well. [1] https://github.com/coder/code-server

they did already: https://github.com/coder/code-server works great, even on small server machines! edit: as pointed out by others, this is not actually by MS, but works just fine anyway. TIL!

Possible alternative: https://github.com/coder/code-server Basically lets you use VS Code from a browser. Integrated terminal works, Git integration, and many extensions work too

The alternative is actually possible and works reasonably well from the browser: https://github.com/coder/code-server

> I can use my editor over ssh and edit anywhere, I don't need a GUI to even be installed on the system where I have all of my cores and RAM for compiling the kernel, I can use VS Code in the browser: https://github.com/coder/code-server > it starts up instantly, I launch my editor once a day. Why do you need to keep killing and starting your editor? > and it's completely free and open source, OK, so is VS Code, or at least the OSS version, which has all the key features anyway. > not driven by a corporation, So this is your philosophy. > and there's decades of documentation on how to use it. Most of it out of date, probably. > I guess it's the systems developer in me Guess what? I'm a systems developer too! I also work on the kernel! But I use VS Code. > that can't fathom someone that wants to use a tool to make a living without understa