It is still in preview but works like a charm and to get the full potential you need to download it as a web app to have full screen, better connection and no clipboard issues when pasting to the terminal. Here you can see I have access to my terminal with ZSH plus autocomplete plugin to run my GO programm. Literally you can run a pipeline between your desktop machine and your iPad to use all CLI tools and access to your complete folder structure on your iPad inside VSCode. It allows you to securely connect to that remote machine from anywhere through a v URL, without the requirement of SSH. The VS Code Server is a private preview service you can run on a remote development machine, like your desktop PC or a virtual machine (VM). Let’s get to the meat 🥩 of this article! Microsoft describes VSCode Server the following way: Big new changes will come in October with stage manager and full screen external monitor on iPadOS 16 🔥! Apple doesn’t let you to use your iPad as a desktop machine 👨💻 but still the community wants to use it like that.
You can easily connect any bluetooth keyboard (I use the Logitech MX Keys for Mac) and bluetooth mouse (Like Logitech MX Anywhere 3) to your iPad plus you can use the touchscreen which the macbook does not have!Īll these Apps I used before with my iPad have one common problem. Well, first of it is pretty cool to use the iPad as a coding machine! With the new features of iPadOS and the powerful Apple silicon M1 chip you definitely want to use your iPad like a desktop version. So you might ask then why should you use your iPad instead of your laptop or macbook? Apps like CodeSandbox, Py, Scriptable, Koder or the online VSCode feature v inside your browser had already the idea of coding on your iPad. Since I‘ve got the iPad Pro M1 model, I was looking for a way to use VSCode on it. Two month ago I‘ve seen this video on Youtube which demonstrates the new VSCode Server where you can use VSCode anywhere with internet access on your iPad! Youtube
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