Setting up VSCode for Remote SSH and Jupyter Notebook use

Installing VSCode

If you haven't used VSCode before, you should definitely check it out.

If you use homebrew on you Mac laptop, you can easily install it with:

brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Or alternatively, you can manually download a VSCode installer from Microsoft and follow the instruction to install it.

Installing extensions

Once you've installed VSCode and have it running, you'll want to install some extensions to enable functionality that will make us much more productive working with the server. VSCode has great documentation, so you can read more about how to do that here.

There are thousands of extensions, but here are a few we will want to use in particular:

• Remote - SSH
• Jupyter

Once these are installed in VSCode, and you've done everything in the SSH setup, the connecting to the dssg server should Just Work™

• Here's a tutorial on using VSCode for remote development
• Here's one for using Jupyter in VSCode
• Also a couple of guides on Git: Introduction to Git in VS Codeand Using Git source control in VS Code

And these things should all work seamlessly together!

Stay tuned for details on connecting to Jupyter with VSCode on the server!