OpenVSCode Server Reviews

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1. Monkeyman666

   | sysadmin at dagul | over 2 years ago
   Nice web hosting for small website [non production]

   easy setup.

   🏁 Competitors: Heroku
2. Guest

   about 3 years ago
   very good for my kids

OpenVSCode Server mentions (12)

• Self-hosted alternative to Codespaces? (With .devcontainer support)

  Not sure what .devcontainer means, but you can take a look to https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server or https://github.com/coder/code-server. Source: over 1 year ago

• Does anyone have a solution to replace my laptop?

  I am using this project (https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/) to run on my Linux box, then I can access it's server through my web browser. Source: over 1 year ago

• Setting up a remote development environment I can access via a website.

  There are few options: Remote desktop via "noVNC". Nothing needs to be installed on the university computer, other than browser Https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server gives you remote VSCODE in the browser I tried both. I found: - noVNC has noticeable lagging. The scaling of the window can be a hassle to get right. But you have full access to remote system - gitpod let you type the code in the... Source: over 1 year ago

• Not giving developers root access to their dev machines

  I do all my hobby web development in a sandboxed container that runs openvscodeserver, with the dev server also running in a sandboxed container, and both sit behind an oauth proxy to log me in. Source: almost 2 years ago

• The Visual Studio Code Server

  Microsoft's server implementation is here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/server-main.js Open VS Code Server takes this barebones implementation and fleshes it out enough to be minimally usable: https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server (i.e. Run it from a CLI command, do basic token auth, etc.). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

replit mentions (604)

• ICQ will stop working from June 26

  Yeah I use firefox's secure password store of late with long passwords generated either automatically or via a dictionary-word password generator I created https://replit.com/@pmarreck/Random-and-dictionary-password-generator. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: How do I get better at programming as a hobbyist?

  I have had a lot of fun using Python on a Raspberry Pi [2].

    [1] https://replit.com/ (has a free tier).

  - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Best Free Website Hosting Options for Developers

  Repl.it — a cloud-based platform for coding in various languages, allowing for experimentation and collaboration. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Downgraded my website to GitHub pages; couldn't be happier

  Compare this to https://replit.com/ which pushes their deployment and you realize that for static website which can do a lot of things these days VS Code with great GitHub integration is just easier and better. And it is easier/cheaper than Vercel too :) Once you want some serverside/db things there are number of paths... Supabase, edge functions, DigitalOcean, AWS, Zapier hooks. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• The Claro Programming Language

  So, I understand why it seems like that Java signature you gave would work, but it in fact does not work. Check out this replit example to see the full example with your signature: https://replit.com/@JasonSteving1/DemoTypeSystemLimitation#src/main/java/Main.java. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago