remote-browser

A lightweight extension that allows you to browse and edit remote files over SFTP.

Features

• Explorer-like view of any directory on a remote machine
• Simple browsing interface separate from your current workspace.
• Edit files locally and automatically sync them on save.
• Supports multiple authentication modes.

Usage

• set remoteBrowser.connectionOptions in User Settings
• If passwordless auth is not available/not successful, you will be prompted for a password.

Extension Commands

• Connect: Connect to remote machine.
• Disconnect: Disconnect from remote machine.
• Change Path: Change root path on the remote machine. Default root is the User's $HOME.

Extension Settings

• remoteBrowser.connectionOptions: supports a subset of ssh2:ConnectConfig opts from the ssh2 library.
• Example Config:

    "remoteBrowser.connectionOptions": {
        "host": "12.34.56.78",  // MANDATORY
        "username": "remoteuser", // MANDATORY
        "privateKey": "C:/Users/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa",  // Path to private key on local machine
        "localHostname": "myhost",
        "localUsername": "myuser",   // Identify as myuser@myhost
        "defaultPath": "/usr/local/bin" // Default directory to start in on connect (Absolute path)
    },
    // Optional array to configure additional connections 
    "remoteBrowser.additionalConnections": [{
        "host": "12.34.56.79",  
        "username": "remoteuser2", 
    }],

• remoteBrowser.tmpFolder: Path to emporary folder for storing downloaded files

See the User Settings file for more info.

Notes

• The extenstion relies on ssh2-sftp-client for remote connections.
• Depending on your workflow, the extension is most effective when used along with an ssh client running in the terminal. Even better if you also use remote-vscode.

Roadmap

• Tests
• More Sort options.
• Multiple server configurations.
• Improved filtering.
• More robust error handling

Contributing

Feel free to open an issue or drop a pull request!

Release Notes

0.7

• Bottom status bar now displays file saving status.
• Added a defaultPath option which specifies a default directory to cd into on initial connect.

0.6

• Added support for multiple connections.
• Fixed issue of password prompt being undismissable.
• Fixed issue of files of the same name in different folders being considered the same.

0.5.6

• Bug fixes. Thanks to @ronsano

0.5.5

• Adds large file support. Thanks to @kimulimuli

0.5.3

• Added a default sort - Folders first and alphabetical.
• Added a filter option that allows filtering the current root folder by specifying a regex to test all filenames for. Might change this to a glob in the future.

0.5.2

• Added context menu option - Make root (Use on any subdirectory to make it the new root for the explorer tree)
• Fixed Bug where the '..'back option wasn't getting updated on root change.

0.5.1

• Changed privateKey connection option to be a file path instead of an actual key string.
• Fixed config file not being read after initialization.

0.5.0

Initial release

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