Even better example, if you do say: $ *npm install whatever in a remote directory, it will actually execute the real thing on the server. So as long as you

Even better example, if you do say: $ *npm install whatever in a remote directory, it will actually execute the real thing on the server. So as long as you don't need to use ncurses based program etc. it's a good-enough ssh too. Though quite honestly I much prefer to just start emacs on the server, make 4 eshell windows and have it be my fancy tmux/screen. It feels inelegant when you first do it, but it's very liberating actually.