Chris Neely

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I’m going to keep this brief as you can find any number of articles with similar content and great suggestions for coding on an iPad. I’m impressed with code-server overall and think it’s a great concept and want to share it with everyone.

I’ve recently started researching options to use my iPad Pro for coding and have come across a project named code-server which allows you to run Visual Studio Code on a remote server and access it via a web browser. This works surprisingly well on an iPad with an external keyboard and a mouse.

Currently most of the solutions for coding with an iPad seem to revolve around using a remote computer which is unfortunate but understandable since you can’t run an interpretor on an iPad. I’m currently writing this post on an iPad Pro using code-server backed by a Digital Ocean droplet with 1 vCPU and 1 GB of memory for $5 a month. While this is well below code-server’s recommended specifications it is working quiet well for writing the smaller scripts that I use to automate infrastucture. I also use the same droplet for other random needs which require a full shell.

You can find more information on setting up code-server here. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Also, this blog post is how I found out about code-server and has useful information specifically around using code-server on an iPad.

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