The release of the iPad Pro magic keyboard, combined with the powerful processor and LTE capability, I see a great potential for the new iPad Pro to be a productivity workhorse. As a software developer, I was dreaming of coding on such a thin and light device. And now the dream has came true (sort of) thanks to code-server — an open source project that allows us to host Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code as a web App and run it on browser.
Here is a step by step tutorial to host Visual Studio Code on AWS EC2 and run it on your iPad for free (for a year). It doesn’t have to be AWS, you can host the code-server on any server you like.
Part 1: Setting up EC2
- You will need to register a new AWS account. (New AWS account includes 12 months of free use of EC2, after the free trail you can either pay ~$10 per month or create a new account to get another 12 months of free trail)
- Log in to the AWS console from here https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-1#LaunchInstanceWizard: (feel free to change the region)
- Create a new EC2 instance with Ubuntu
