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Have you tried using VSCode's remote development extension?

In a nutshell: your repo contains a file (or directory) with everything needed to set up a containerized run environment for the project. VSCode adds its own server daemon, and your IDE runs half inside the container, half on the host machine. Once it's set up, everyone on the project (who has vscode) instantly has a one click clean, working development environment, including all the niceness you expect from local development (debugger, test integration, etc). It is fucking magical.

Detail: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioCodeRemoteDevelop...



I thought about creating an AMI for AWS that uses code-server instead of Cloud9.


Theres a great tool by cdr that uses ssh to prepare and launch a VScode environment. Works great in conjunction with AWS ec2 tools like the awscli.

https://github.com/cdr/sshcode


right, this is something like what VSCode has built in, except rather than hosting all of VSCode on the remote server, it splits itself into a thin client on your host and a server backend on the remote machine. You can use SSH, or my preference is a local container.




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