Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

Amazon Web Services offers up a remote development setup for Visual Studio Code developers that involves an SSH connection to leverage the AWS Cloud9 IDE and other functionality.

Recently Microsoft released an extension pack for Visual Studio Code that enables remote development in different scenarios. The Remote Development Extension Pack allows the development against a ...

While the Remote Extensions already enabled to code "remotely" using a local VS Code frontend, that requires dealing with SSH or HTTPS configuration, which admittedly is not entirely desirable.