Vscode remote development on NixOS

tbenst · May 29, 2020, 10:54am

You might try the useLocalExtensions option of the remote-ssh extension, if the host also has a local vscode installation.

breakds · May 31, 2020, 6:52am

Slightly off the topic though, if I am going to override the useLocalExtentions for the callPackage on remote-ssh extension in my overlay, what is the proper way to do so?

breakds · June 19, 2020, 3:31pm

Just want to have some update:

I have since been using code-server (Thanks a lot, @offlinehacker !) and everything worked out pretty nicely. I have wrapped it up with a service module (not under home-manager though):

github.com

breakds/nixvital/blob/37cf182e78ec1ea20da439a7b596fc2d3ab7e548/modules/services/code-server.nix

{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

let cfg = config.vital.code-server;

in {
  options.vital.code-server = with lib; {
    enable = lib.mkEnableOption "Enable this to start a visual studio code server.";
    port = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.port;
      description = "The port on which vs code is served.";
      default = 5902;
      example = 5902;
    };
    domain = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.str;
      description = "The domain to the code server.";
      default = "code.breakds.org";
      example = "code.breakds.org";
    };
    user = lib.mkOption {

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The activation script is also from some posts in this forum. Would like to express my gratitude and hope this helps anyone who is also looking for the solution.

ChocolateLoverRaj · July 1, 2024, 10:24pm

After looking at all the answers, the best way to do it in my experience is using code-server as @offlinehacker said

I will add on that running code-server in a devShell is very easy. All I did was:

nix-shell -p code-server

Then in my project folder:

nix develop

Then inside the devShell:

code-server

And then I used code-server remotely inside the remote devShell.

Mic92 · July 2, 2024, 4:17am

Have you tried enabling and configuring nix-ld-rs on NixOS? This should address most of the issues on NixOS and just make it work ™: GitHub - nix-community/nix-ld-rs: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS [maintainer=@zhaofengli @Mic92]

ChocolateLoverRaj · July 2, 2024, 5:53am

I enabled it but didn’t add any libraries to the nix ld path. Also, I don’t want to install Rust with nix ld path. I prefer to have it in a flake.nix so I can specify the rust version per-project.

Mic92 · July 2, 2024, 9:10am

I would at least at enough libraries to make all the precompiled binaries to work like the server, language server etc. And just use direnv to handle all project dependencies.

ChocolateLoverRaj · July 4, 2024, 8:34pm

The vscode rust-analyzer extension needs Rust for the extension to work