coder/code-server
VS Code in the browser
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 279 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #57 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 9, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Runs Visual Studio Code in a web browser to enable remote development environments.
- Provides a consistent, cloud-accessible IDE that offloads heavy tasks to servers, preserving local device resources.
- Use for coding on any device without local IDE installation, maintaining a unified development setup.
- Use for leveraging cloud servers to accelerate builds, tests, and downloads remotely.
- Use for enabling remote teams to share and manage development environments securely via browser access.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
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From the README
Run VS Code on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser.
See requirements for minimum specs, as well as instructions on how to set up a Google VM on which you can install code-server.
TL;DR: Linux machine with WebSockets enabled, 1 GB RAM, and 2 vCPUs
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,074 stars over 84 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +24 on Aug 16.
Forks
6.9K+154
Open issues
161+7
Compared with peers in Developer Tools
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| affaan-m/ECC | 297.9K | +5.2K | 63 | 35 days ago |
| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 185.3K | +5.1K | 60 | 7 days ago |
| herdrdev/herdr | 48.3K | +1.7K | 59 | 22 days ago |
| The-PR-Agent/pr-agent | 15.1K | +1.5K | 64 | 11 days ago |
| coder/code-server | 79.7K | — | 65 | 3 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +5.1K | 60 | — |
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