# Code Server ## Overview VS Code ## Project Details - **Project Website:** [Link](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - **Container Image:** [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/code-server) - **Reverse Proxy Port:** `8443` ## Getting Started 1. Start the container: `docker compose up -d` 2. Open http://localhost:8443 in your browser 3. Follow the initial setup wizard to configure the application ## Environment Variable Notes Data directory: ``` - ${VOL_PATH:-./data}/vscode/data:/data ``` This is where all your code is stored, it should be set to your 1000 user. Then you can move your code here as that user. Config Directory: This is your home directory, your ssh keys are stored here. ## Volume Notes /data – host path /data/projects /config – host path /data/vscode/config ## Network Notes Requires proxy network ## Docker Run ```bash docker run -d \ --name vscode \ -p 8443:8443 \ -v /data/projects:/data \ -v /data/vscode/config:/config \ lscr.io/linuxserver/code-server:latest ``` See compose.yaml for the full set of environment variables. ## Additional Notes / Gotchas For setup you need to set the user and group ID you can do that by using ```id username``` or by changing the vol with ```chown -R user:group path/``` ### Set git info Open terminal and run: ``` git config --global user.name "Name" git config --global user.email "your-email@example.com" ``` You also want to generate a key for your connection: ``` ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "c@nickyeoman.com" cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub ``` ## Dockhand Stack, Deploy from Git Cookbooks Repository stackname: vscode Compose file path: vscode/compose.yaml Additional env file (optional): vscode/sample.env Then "Load" vscode/sample.env into the Environmental variables in dockhand Create the Stack ## Nginx Proxy manager If you are placing this behind NPM then you need to enable web sockets.