Using Visual Studio Code 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¶
3. In VSCode, install 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'.
Type ssh [username]@rackham.uppmax.uu.se
where [username]
is your UPPMAX username,
for example, ssh sven@rackham.uppmax.uu.se
.
Use the ~/.ssh/config
file:
Click on 'Connect':
Now, you can work directly on your Rackham files!