
More and more developers work on large and complex projects that require them to work against specialized developer VMs or servers that offer more storage or compute power than a normal laptop. Limitless: You are not bound to your local machine The Remote extensions allow you to develop against a container, a remote machine or virtual machine (VM), or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), while using VS Code with its full feature set as your development environment.

In case you missed it, Visual Studio Code recently released the Remote Development extensions. Jby Sana Ajani, Remote - SSH: Easy, smooth, and (like) local

Node.js Development with Visual Studio Code and Azure.

Moving from Local to Remote Development.
