Installing Visual Studio Codeserver on Glitch

[Extroonie]

Could you share your workaround so?

[code-alt]

Ok, I’ll share the repl

[RiversideRocks]

Sorry, but at the moment users cannot use apt or sudo.

[khalby786]

@code-alt do let us know how it turns out on Repl.it!

[javaarchive]

ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴

[RiversideRocks]

𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 = @javaarchive

[code-alt]

5gb should be enough @javaarchive right?

[wh0]

@jarvis394

You have to upload the binary and call it from the terminal

I was wondering if everyone was ignoring this because there was something wrong with it. But it worked for me. I was able to install it with their standalone package:

#!/bin/sh -eux
CS_VERSION=3.7.1
if [ -x ~/.local/bin/code-server ]; then
  exit 0
fi
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
cd /tmp
wget "https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/v$CS_VERSION/code-server-$CS_VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
tar -xf "code-server-$CS_VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
ln -s "/tmp/code-server-$CS_VERSION-linux-amd64/bin/code-server" ~/.local/bin/

Glitch Code Editor ･ﾟ✧

Anyway, it uses plenty of memory, but it’s still within parameters for an un-boosted project. Dunno how fast it grows with a larger project open though.

It takes about 300 MB on disk, which seems to be no sweat as long as you’re outside of /app.

app@sugary-internal-mascara:~ 01:23 
$ du -sh /tmp/code-server-3.7.1-linux-amd64
300M    /tmp/code-server-3.7.1-linux-amd64

app@sugary-internal-mascara:~ 01:32 
$ df -h /tmp
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1       49G   21G   28G  43% /tmp

Can’t let the public see this demo because then they would be able to trash the project. But you could remix it and do cat /tmp/code-server-config.yaml to see the password for logging in to your own copy.

Some caveats:

1. Setting PASSWORD as an environment variable is broken in this version of code-server. so I rigged it up to use a config file in /tmp.
2. This takes up the www port that Glitch serves for you, so maybe (i) try out this GitHub - coder/code-server: VS Code in the browser hosted solution, (ii) set up a reverse proxy, or (iii) just work on something that isn’t a website.

Thanks for highlighting this thread @RiversideRocks

[javaarchive]

I wrote a similar script, but hardcoded the version. It went boom when that certain version somehow disappeared from github

[javaarchive]

and yes since I forgot to say, I did exactly what wh0 did except the logic was slightly different and I hardcoded the version
so basically it installs into /tmp the part that doesn’t change at all

[khalby786]

So that’s how you got more disk space.