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How To Run VS Code In Your Browser

Ben Matt, Jr. on October 02, 2020

If you like VS Code then you'll surely like this brand feature on VS Code! Because yes! You can actually run VS Code on your browser! And here is h...

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Meir Gabay • Oct 3 '20

I love code-server! You can also run it without installing anything by using Docker, it's in the docs

# This will start a code-server container and expose it at http://127.0.0.1:8080.
# It will also mount your current directory into the container as `/home/coder/project`
# and forward your UID/GID so that all file system operations occur as your user outside
# the container.
#
# Your $HOME/.config is mounted at $HOME/.config within the container to ensure you can
# easily access/modify your code-server config in $HOME/.config/code-server/config.json
# outside the container.
mkdir -p ~/.config
docker run -it -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
  -v "$HOME/.config:/home/coder/.config" \
  -v "$PWD:/home/coder/project" \
  -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
  codercom/code-server:latest

Ben Matt, Jr. • Oct 3 '20

Yes of course you can! So enjoy it!

Waren Gonzaga • Oct 2 '20

You can now literally code on the cloud via GitHub Codespaces!
dev.to/warengonzaga/github-codespa...

Ben Matt, Jr. • Oct 2 '20

Thanks I appreciate it, I've already subscribed for the beta version but I'm still waiting 😋

Waren Gonzaga • Oct 2 '20

You'll love it promise!

Phippsy • Oct 3 '20

That is cool! Is updating as new versions get released easy?

Ben Matt, Jr. • Oct 3 '20

Yes of course! Just try it 🤓

Phippsy • Oct 8 '20

So the answer is NO, you can't update VS Code as versions are released. You can update Code-OSS as versions are released, but it is behind the current version.

Additionally, the list of extensions is not complete. In particular, the remote ssh extension which I use ALL the time is not available due to licensing issues. I tried installing it manually, which I could easily do, but it doesn't work.

APART FROM THAT. It's fucking awesome. Just not something I will be able use for my day to day development tasks currently.