Remote Development Extension Pack
A Microsoft-developed extension pack that enables VS Code to run development environments in containers, remote machines, WSL, or via tunnels while maintaining full IDE functionality.
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docker
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wsl
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vscode
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nodejs
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devcontainer spec
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