As I’m about to start development of MacFeegle Prime in earnest I’ve started looking at how best to do this. I’ve long been a fan of Visual Studio Code and figured it would probably have a solution to my problem. Turns out it did!

I’ve used JetBrains WebStorm in the distant past and one of the really handy features was remote development. You could modify HTML, CSS and JavaScript locally and it would automagically deploy that code to your server, remote debugging included! It turns out VS Code has similar.

This is made possible using the Remote Development – SSH extension, follow the steps in the link and you’ll get set up in no time.

One issue I faced is that I couldn’t get the ssh-agent service to run in Windows, I solved this using this solution as a base. In the end I opened services.msc and set the ssh agent to automatic.

To put an SSH key on the Pi, use this as a guide:
Add Public SSH Key to Remote Server in a Single Command (howtogeek.com)