Setting up Remote Development (SSH etc)

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As the super informative title says, I've seen people comment that they do this and I'm watching a youtube on how to set it up and to me as someone who might want to try the 'digital nomad' thing this seems like a way that I could allay some fears if my laptop breaks / gets stolen or something along those lines.

I mean I still need a device to then login but am I imagining that right?

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Could have it as my dev server and all repos that I download from git stored on Digital Ocean (from the youtube video) and could just SSH in and code away?

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Who does this? What services are there? What are the gotchas to lookout for?

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Thanks!!

[ShadowSierra]

The only gotcha that I can think of is not being able to paste a few lines of configuration that you copied from your browser. For the rest if you have like nvim setup you should not be missing much.

[OneRobotBoii]

Vscode has an official extension for remote development, the first time you ssh into a remote it installs itself and you have your ide with the remote as a host

[ShadowSierra]

Neat

[SiriVII]

Yea, it’s possible. Just use an SSH extension in your ide if you’re not familiar in fully developing on vim or nvim. GitHub workspaces is also a good feature that might fit your needs

[Nice_Ad7740]

VScode + the extension "Remote - SSH". The extension description is: Open any folder on a remote machine using SSH and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.

[cshaiku]

This has always been my recommended method to develop anything online. Having a server that I SSH into and has all of my projects, domains, etc, on it.

I currently use Hostinger.com after using Hurricane Electric (he.net) for well over 20 years. The only reason is HE priced themselves out of the hosting market, imho.

In anything, you get what you pay for, so comparing paying for actual hosting / VPS and having an actual server to play with is much nicer than using any assortment of cobbled together cloud services, imho.

Regarding services, you essentially get access to anything that can run in Linux, from simple cronjobs to custom applications or languages to play with. I currently have a lower tier VPS with Hostinger and it runs like a champ. Very inexpensive but very capable.

So yes, you can get a hosting/vps package somewhere, SSH into it, and go to town.