It's kind of hard to explain how magical working with TRAMP can feel sometimes. If you are conditioned use emacs for everything, like git or project management

It's kind of hard to explain how magical working with TRAMP can feel sometimes. If you are conditioned use emacs for everything, like git or project management or file management , these things will work on a remote server as if it were local (with the only caveat being delays as it transfers data). Depending on your setup, you could reasonably dev applications running on a Digital Ocean droplet as easily as if you were editing locally.