I am here typing away on my iPad in VS Code to upload this blog post. Of course, your work station of choice doesn’t necessarily have to be an iPad. Nonetheless, being able to have such a setup would have been unheard of years ago. In this post, I’ll include the steps as well as commands to make this possible.
Installing VS Code
You can install the command line version of VS Code under the CLI option on the Visual Studio Code website. You can choose to download either the ARM32 or ARM64 version depending on which Raspberry Pi version you have.
Download VS Code command line.
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curl -Lk 'https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=cli-alpine-arm64' --output vscode_cli.tar.gz
Unzip the file
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tar -xf vscode_cli.tar.gz
Install code tunnel as a service
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./code tunnel service install
and
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sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER
to ensure that the service stays running. eg. when I closed my ssh instance, the server actually stopped running.
After following through the setup instructions, now all you need is to either use VS Code or the website to connect to your tunnel.
You can also refer to this website for official documentation on VS Code tunnels. Now when I want to work on my projects, I can just bring along my iPad which is relatively small in size, to do work anywhere 🥳.
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