Visual Studio Code Server support in NixOS

Experimental support for VS Code Server in NixOS. The NodeJS by default supplied by VS Code cannot be used within NixOS due to missing hardcoded paths, so it is automatically replaced by a symlink to a compatible version of NodeJS that does work under NixOS.

Installation

Install using flakes (flake.nix)

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    nixos-vscode-server.url ="github:thirusk86/nixos-vscode-ssh-fix/main";
  };

  outputs = inputs@{self, nixpkgs, ...}: {
    nixosConfigurations.some-host = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem rec {
        system = "x86_64-linux";
        # For more information of this field, check:
        # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix
        modules = [
          ./configuration.nix
          {
            imports = [ inputs.auto-fix-vscode-server.nixosModules.system ];
          }
        ];
      };
  };
}

Enable the service

systemctl --user enable nixos-vscode-server.service

Start the service

systemctl --user start nixos-vscode-server.service

Usage

This service only works if the VSCode server has yet to be installed. If the server has already been installed, remove ~/.vscode-server, restart the service, and then try to connect to the VSCode server from another client again.

The service can be restarted with systemctl --user restart nixos-vscode-server or by rebooting the machine.