Visual Studio Code on the Cloud

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Visual Studio Live Share

Visual Studio Code is incredibly powerful, whether it's for writing markdown, writing quarto (.qmd) files, getting syntax highlighting and peerless language support (eg auto-completion), getting peerless git support, working with a co-pilot, working with collaborators in real-time, or even running R code in a modern REPL. For me, it's the best IDE by some way. One of its strongest features for data science is its ability to do interactive window coding with scripts and notebooks. Yet most online or cloud-based data science services focus only on notebooks. Wouldn't it be great if there was a reliable way to use all of Visual Studio Code's features in the cloud?1.

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GitHub Codespaces

There are pre-made resources out there that do this already such as Github Codespaces and Gitpod, which even has a free tier. They are incredible and well worth checking out for, more or less, a one click solution for fully-featued Visual Studio Code in the cloud. But they're probably a bit more pricey than a roll your own version, clearly have less flexibility in terms of virtual machines, and don't come with the nice data backends that are provided by a huge cloud provider (yet).

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Google Cloud SDK

You'll also need to install the Google Cloud SDK (a command line tool for interacting with GCP; SDK stands for 'software development kit') on your computer. Once you have downloaded and installed it, run gcloud init to set it up. This is the point at which your computer becomes trusted to do things to your GCP account.

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