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Using Visual Studio Code on Rackham

VSCode from a local computer working on Rackham.

VSCode from a local computer working on Rackham.

Introduction

Visual Studio Code ('VSCode') is an IDE that can be used for software development in many languages.

What is an IDE?

See the page on IDEs.

In this session, we show how to use VSCode on Rackham.

Procedure to start VSCode

This procedure fails!

Due to a recent change in VSCode and/or the 'Remote Tunnels' plugin, this approach does not work anymore.

This is reported at Issue 121.

Below is a step-by-step procedure to start RStudio. This procedure is also demonstrated in this YouTube video.

1. Install VSCode on your local computer

2. Start VSCode on your local computer

Start VSCode on your local computer

3. In VSCode, install the VSCode 'Remote Tunnels' plugin

Install the VSCode 'Remote Tunnels' plugin

Installed the VSCode 'Remote Tunnels' plugin

4. In VSCode, connect to Rackham

In VSCode, at the 'Remote Explorer' tab, click on 'SSH', then on 'New Remote'.

VSCode: add New Remote

Type ssh [username]@rackham.uppmax.uu.se where [username] is your UPPMAX username, for example, ssh sven@rackham.uppmax.uu.se.

VSCode: SSH to Rackham

Use the ~/.ssh/config file:

VSCode: setup config

Click on 'Connect':

VSCode: connect

Now, you can work directly on your Rackham files!

VSCode connected to Rackham