Step by step guide to setup and run VSCode on iPad

Jimmy
5 min readOct 24, 2020

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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…

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Jimmy

Software Engineer @Microsoft, ex Apple, Amazon Dev