Now you can run a code-server as a service.

As I mentioned in my last article, I said that code-server lacks a service to run it in the background or at startup. I build a systemd service to solve this issue.

If you want to have the code-server running n the background just follow this steps:

• Create the systemd service with this command

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/code-server.service

• Paste the code below.

[Unit]
Description=Code-Server Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
User= yourUser
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/code-server

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Start the service

sudo service code-server start

• Check the status

sudo service code-server status

• Optional enable the process at startup

sudo systemctl enable code-server

Now you should be able to take you safe development environment on your iPad or on your grandma slow computer,without being afraid that the server will stop.