sshcodeis a CLI to automatically install and run code-server over SSH. It uploads your extensions and settings automatically, so you can seamlessly use remote servers as VS Code hosts.If you have Chrome installed, it opens the browser in app mode. That means there’s no keybind conflicts, address bar, or indication that you’re coding within a browser. It feels just like native VS Code.
No one likes to spend the day setting up and recreating the config of their text editor of choice. If you use VS Code and Settings Sync you won’t have to. Paige Niedringhaus writes:
This article will show you how to perfectly recreate your Visual Studio Code IDE settings without starting over from scratch and spending hours on it.
When faced with the possibility of losing (or even trying to transfer) my carefully developed VS Code setup to another machine, I knew there had to be a way to do it gracefully. I just knew the solution had to be out there, and so, I asked the internets, and it brought back Settings Sync.
Jonathan Carter, in a deep-dive on the why (and how) behind Live Share:
When we set out to build Visual Studio Live Share, we learned that teams collaborate in very diverse ways, with unique and meaningful perspectives about how it works most effectively for them (e.g. frequency of collaboration, session duration, whether it happens ad-hoc vs. scheduled).
Interesting insights, excellent collaboration feature. 👌
If you’ve been wanting a way to run VS Code as a cloud-IDE, code-server is what you’ve been looking for.
Code-server allows VS Code to run on a remote server making it fully accessible through the browser. … Developers ready to embrace the cloud-based IDE can do so without losing features, or control. This means you can code on your Chromebook, tablet and desktop with a completely synchronized environment. You can spill coffee on your laptop without fear of losing work.
Browser Preview for VS Code enables you to open a real browser preview inside your editor that you can debug. Browser Preview is powered by Chrome Headless, and works by starting a headless Chrome instance in a new process
A syntax theme, icon package, and UI theme for your favorite editor (maybe).
This list is so long it makes me think two things: a) VS Code has an amazingly vibrant ecosystem, or b) the curators of this list aren’t doing enough curatin’. We might find the truth somewhere in the gray space…
Kenneth Reitz, well known in the Python community, creator of Requests, and a former Changelogger has been using VS Code for Python development for several months and is giving it the “should use” status.
Kenneth writes on his personal blog:
I’ve been using Visual Studio Code daily now (for Python development) for about six months — long enough to give it a thorough review. Before, I was using Sublime Text with a few plugins, which worked very well— but, I am continually shocked at just how good VS Code is, in comparison, and I’d like to share with you my observations / opinions…
Ives van Hoorne, creator of CodeSandbox, tweeted this and the attached video has already racked up more than 41.5K views!
… This is not only Monaco, this is VSCode itself directly running in the browser with node shims connected to the APIs of CodeSandbox. This means that we can get Grid View, VSCode Extension support, breadcrumbs + more! I’m so excited by this! #
I’m close to getting VSCode extensions working in their own web worker, then we’ll get things like VIM mode, first class TypeScript support and more! The great thing is that it will work exactly as VSCode, it’s literally the same code base. #
Burke Holland:
In my endless pursuit of the perfect VS Code setup, I reached out to my colleagues here on the Azure team and asked them to share their favorite extension in their own words. So clear your pallet and breathe in the aromatic flavors of productivity; I am your VS Code Extension Sommelier.
Ives van Hoorne writes on Medium:
Personalizing color schemes is one of the most important things to have in an code editor.
CodeSandbox didn’t have any way to personalize colors in the editor since release, but I’m happy to announce that we do now. The best part is that we were able to reuse a big chunk of logic from VSCode directly and also support any VSCode theme natively in CodeSandbox!
Now you can easily drag and drop your code tabs thanks to the new grid editor layout — complete with horizontal and vertical layout editing. Check the June 2018 release notes for more details.
This thing is packed with features, but the one that really impressed me (and may ultimately lead to me giving VS Code another go) is the Code Lens with inline git blames.
Adds an unobtrusive, customizable, and themable, blame annotation at the end of the current line
So cool! I do fear that it may become more annoying than useful over time, but you never know until you try.
This was inspired by Dawn Labs’ excellent Carbon service, but why leave your editor if you don’t have to, right?
An attempt to use VSCode as a complete note taking application.
This is a port of the SublimeNotebook project, so check that out if you’re a Sublime user.
All the best things about Visual Studio Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you.
Emmet, baked in. Plus, tons more to discover…
Two beloved worlds collide:
an extension for Visual Studio Code inspired by the venerable Org mode for Emacs. Org lets you keep notes, maintain TODO lists, and author documents, all in plain text.
It comes with a disclaimer: “(In Progress, contributions are welcome)”
We’re not new to Solarized, but Solarized Minimal is new to us.
Solarized Minimal aims to create a more homogeneous and subtle use of the Solarized palette by assigning colors primarily through the root groups described in the TextMate documentation.
Supports:
We’re back in NYC at Microsoft Connect(); talking about the backstory of Visual Studio Code with Julia Liuson (Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio), Chris Dias (Principal Program Manager of Visual Studio and .NET), and PJ Meyer (Product Manager).
We talk about the beginnings of the Visual Studio product line, how Microsoft missed the internet, how the community is judging Microsoft and looking at them with a very old lense, how Visual Studio Code evolved from lessons learned with their cloud based editor called Monaco, how they had to radically change to reach developers beyond Windows, and how this open source project is thriving.
