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Hm okay. There’s always the Remote-SSH extension. Not web-enabled, but I’ve never really seen a compelling web use case anyways.

• mbreese 3y ago
  The main use-case I have is running a remote vscode session on an HPC cluster. The cluster (and data) are secured, so making a tunnel connection to an outside server (vscode.dev) is not allowed. The data files are also very large. Remote-SSH works, but it is slow with larger/many files. One of the workflows I have is to start a remote R session and load a bunch of datafiles into that environment. The vscode R integration is pretty good, and I'm happy to use it over Rstudio. But, because of this, I want to have this session running on the remote servers -- hence the remote web access. I used to be able to start the vscode web server on the cluster and use SSH tunneling to connect directly to that instance of vscode (through ssl or with other cluster-side proxies as required). It's not a standard use-case, so I see why they are deprecating it. It's using vscode more as a notebook instead of a traditional IDE.