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Comment by shaklee3 | Hacker News Reader

What is missing from vscode for remote development? MS released their remote development extensions earlier this year, and everything from browsing to searching feels native.

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I haven't personally tried it yet, but the positive reviews made me curious - I'll have to check it out!

For reference, here's the documentation page for VS Code Remote Development:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

The Remote Development Extension Pack (linked in the article):

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

Do you happen to know if it works for vagrant VM's? Because having a file system mismatch (symlinked dependencies in vm, IDE doesn't recognise them) is a bit of a pain point for me right now, it would be really fantastic to find a solution within VSC.

Looks pretty promising actually :)

Not sure, but it works by storing files on the remote server under ~/.vscode, and this is where all the normal code files are stored. When you connect to a remote system it loads these files over ssh.

If you can SSH to your vagrant VM, then yes!

I've been using a Vagrant VM and VSC remote via SSH for the last two months, and it works really, really well.

Yeah, same rxn. I tried vsc's remote dev stuff to try pair-programming w a friend in another state, and was surprised and delighted at how well it worked. It was effortless and frictionless.

I've had a similar experience. Nothing but good things to say about it, the extension works incredibly well.

Really? I'll give it a try. When vscode was first released this was the one feature missing.

I tried it on the first day it was released and haven't looked back. It's made me significantly more productive than with the old ssh plug-ins.

+1 for VSCode.... I'm still waiting for the catch.

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