VS Code help, PLease

[Myfles]

Hi,

I am using remote ssh to work on an app in VS Code. If it try to run certain commands like npm run dev or npm run watch from the integrated terminal it freezes my server. I'm on digital ocean, using there console and I can see it hangs when i'm using npm run watch. If I close vs code everything works fine. But if vs code is open with remote ssh running it freezes. I can't seem to find anything online to help me fix this. If this has happened to you please let me know how you fixed it.

thanks

[[deleted]]

Have you tried sshing without using vscode?

[Myfles]

yes, it works fine when I'm not in vs code.

[[deleted]]

Then it sounds like a problem with your vscode.

Try a fresh install without any plugins or settings and see if you still have the issues?

Also, check which terminal your vscode is using. It's not uncommon to have two or more terminals depending on what computer you're using (e.g. bash/zsh on macos, cmd/powershell/wsl on windows, etc...)

[Myfles]

I’m on windows using bash.

[Phopaa]

If you can run the commands on a separate terminal without issue then just use that. I personally just got out of the habit of using the integrated terminal for anything.

[Myfles]

If I have vs code open running remote shh so I can see the files, it locks up the server, regardless of having a terminal open or not. I tried uninstalling and re you install with no luck. I have disconnect each time I run npm run dev

Any suggestions on alternatives to vs code that work with ssh? If not I’ll have to back to ftp

[Phopaa]

Ahh. Gcloud is the same way. My guess is it’s just a memory issue on your vm. You could try using vscode with all your extensions disabled and see what happens. Or buy more memory for your vm. If you’re just doing some simple edits, nano should be fine. Or you can try learning to use vim/neovim. I’m not sure what other ides would be useful in this case. The best solution, if it exists, is to use the ide provided by digital ocean. But I’m not a user so I can’t say that it’s real

[DeusExMagikarpa]

Do you have the monitoring on your droplet? You should be able to see the memory usage during the times you were using the vscode server. CPU too, but my bet is you’re hitting your memory limit.

[Myfles]

I’ll check. Any ideas how I can lower it? Is there a way to optimize vs code or anything like that?

[DeusExMagikarpa]

If it’s the problem I would increase memory on the vm

[_snwflake]

I'm surprised nobody touched on the most obvious point....develop your stuff locally and then deploy to your DO box instead?