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Discussion on: Why I prefer WebStorm over VSCode for web dev

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Olivier JM Maniraho

I wonder does webstorm have editing files over ssh.
This is one useful feature that has made me stick to vscode.

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Edwin

It seems this is not possible, at least not like remote editing in VSCode. It seems WebStorm only supports having a local copy of all the files and then synchronising them over SFTP and SSH to run remote commands. Sounds a little inconvenient.

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John

There is always sshfs. When I was stuck with Windows only for a short while, I used it for changing files on a dev vm I had running on my home server. It was the easiest method without having to change the base image (adding unnecessary services) since it was the same one we'd deploy to various systems. Worked just as well as on Linux.

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Edwin

Funny that you mention it, this was the main reason I switched to VSCode for working at home. I will look into it!

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Olivier JM Maniraho

Thanks, I hope to find a text editor that offers a similar feature, vscode.

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Edwin • Edited

JetBrains now has Code With Me for all their IDEs, which allows remote editing. 🎉