Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?

Re:Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineer... by ohthehugemanate on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:50PM (#22279151)

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...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineer... by k__ on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:42PM (#22279404)

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

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Re:Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineer... by tfolbrecht on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:29PM (#22279606)

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

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Re:Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineer... by ohthehugemanate on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:38PM (#22279639)

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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