How to fix VS Code remote SSH for NixOS target
When you install VS Code with its remote-SSH plugin, and logs into a shell via SSH. VS Code will install its backend on the remote machine (at ~/.vscode-server
) and turns the client into a front-end (after all, it’s just an Electron app).
However, VS Code depends on an much older version of nodejs
, and so you need to manually relink the node
exectubale to that version. In other words:
- Install
nodejs-12_x
via nix-env or home-manager rm -f
thenode
executable in./vscode-server/bin/<hash>/node
- Replace it with symlink
nix eval nixpkgs.nodejs-12_x.outPath
References
- Github issue #648 in 2019
- Github issue #3476 in Aug 2020