Manage Visual Studio Code Server

// To install
# The version of the Microsoft Visual Studio Code Server
version=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/coder/code-server/releases | grep -oP '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -n 1)

wget https://github.com/coder/code-server/releases/download/v$version/code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar.gz
gunzip code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar
rm -r code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar
mv code-server-$version-linux-amd64 /usr/local/vscode

# Now start the server! Arguments can be passed for advanced control of the server!
## Run this for all arguments:
/usr/local/vscode/bin/code-server -h
## Use PASSWORD as env to set a password outside those in the config
/usr/local/vscode/bin/code-server --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:8932 --locale de --user-data-dir /usr/local/vscode/user --extensions-dir /usr/local/vscode/exts &
echo $! > /usr/local/vscode/pid

# Now visit http://127.0.0.1:8932. Your password is in ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml


// To uninstall
kill $(cat /usr/local/vscode/pid)
rm -r /usr/local/vscode