This project provides a version of VS Code that runs a server on a remote machine and allows access through a modern web browser. It's based on the very same architecture used by Gitpod or GitHub Codespaces at scale. VS Code has traditionally been a desktop IDE built with web technologies. A few years back, people started patching it in order to run it in a remote context and to make it accessible through web browsers. These efforts have been complex and error-prone because many changes had to be made across the large code base of VS Code. Luckily, in 2019 the VS Code team started to refactor its architecture to support a browser-based working mode. While this architecture has been adopted by Gitpod and GitHub, the important bits have not been open-sourced, until now. As a result, many people in the community still use the old, hard-to-maintain, and error-prone approach.

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  • Custom Environment
  • Documentation available
  • Examples available
  • Pre-install VSCode extensions
  • Easy to use

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MIT License

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

TypeScript

Related Categories

TypeScript Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

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2024-11-12