Has anybody had experience with Visual Studio Code Remote Development?

[AGRogers]

Hi

Has anyone used this sort of config before with web2py? That is, VSC connecting via SSH to a remote server (Google Cloud Debian VM for me) and then being able to debug an app on the remote system.

I am getting ready to deploy my app for the first time and have been somewhat fearful that if there is some weird bug I will never be able to track it down without being able to debug on that system.

So i stumbled onto this https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview which seems really cool - you can run python apps on a remote server and debug it like it was on the localhost.

So i got a Google Cloud server installed and got VSC talking to it fine and debugged a one line python 'app'. So that was neat.  

But I am not sure where to start with web2py in this environment. I havent tried very hard yet though. 

Can anyone tell me i am wasting my time or that it works great?

Thanks 

Andrew

[villas]

In the absence of other replies...

Massimo has mentioned (in the py4web group) that he knows generally that many developers are using Visual Studio remotely and it is a very good set up, so he strongly recommends it. 

This seems consistent with your experience so I suggest you should continue to go with it. 

I use VS locally with web2py and like it,  so I'm thinking to do the same.

[Kevin Keller]

I tried to use it once remotely, not even web2py related, but there were quite some hoops to jump through, as far I as remembered. 

You have to add some custom code to your app to make communicate etc. and I could not be bothered. 

Anyways, I went back to just use vim with several plugins that make it a nice VS Code type experience. 

Happy to share the .vimrc file. 

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[AGRogers]

Thanks Kevin. I didn't need to do anything in my app to be able to debug. My app was literally only two lines of code. Maybe things have changed? I will keep you posted with my progress. 

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[AGRogers]

Thanks Villas. That's encouraging. 

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[Kevin Keller]

Ok cool Andrew.

Really good to know. 

Will give another try then.

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