VS Code Remote Interface

This extension adds a JSON RPC remote interface to VS Code.

Features

• Launches a registrar-server that coordinates how to broadcast and connect to multiple vs code instances.

• Implements token based security.

  

• See the library vscode-rpc on npm on how to programmatically control vscode.

• Supports easy-attach for extremely easy debugging of node applications.

  

• Adds commands for editing and reloading the server config.

• Provides RPC contracts for

  • Jumping to a given code span of a given file
  • Highlighting a given code span
  • Adding inline widgets

Easy Attach

Requirements

• Port 56024 must be free.

TODO

• Virtual Files
• Browser access (by enabling CORS): So you can forward text areas to VS Code
• Better documentation
• Better UI when there are multiple debug targets

Implementation Details

See the repository.