One way to overcome the limitations of your laptop or desktop is to use a remote machine. In this blog post, I show you how to overcome the limitations of your laptop or desktop by using AWS Cloud9 to power your Visual Studio Code IDE. Some of these challenges include running out of local disk space, RAM exhaustion, or requiring more CPU cores to process a build.

One of the hardest challenges to overcome, regardless of IDE, is the fact that it’s confined to the hardware that it’s installed on. Despite all of this time invested in building the perfect IDE, it can still fall somewhat short. I’ve spent hours installing (and sometimes subsequently removing) extensions, figuring out the keyboard shortcut combinations but it’s the theme and syntax highlighter that I find the most appealing. One of the things I appreciate most about Visual Studio Code is its vast ecosystem of extensions, allowing me to extend its core functionality to exactly how I need it. In some instances, it’s a tool we’ve spent years getting set up just the way we want – from the theme that looks the best to the most productive plugins and extensions that help us optimize our workflows.Īfter many iterations of trying different IDEs, I’ve chosen Visual Studio Code as my daily driver. For many of us, it’s a tool that we rely on for our day-to-day activities. Everyone has their favorite integrated development environment, or IDE, as it’s more commonly known.

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