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Connecting with Visual Studio Code

You can open a Visual Studio Code Tunnel to be able to connect to the job remotely from your machine.

Pre-requisites

Launch a Tunnel

To launch a Visual Studio Code Tunnel, you can simply use the srun command:

srun [requirements] --pty code tunnel --no-sleep

Then, follow the on-screen instructions.

At some point, you will see a line like the following: Open this link in your browser https://vscode.dev/tunnel/node.... Now, you have two ways of connecting:

Just click on the bottom left button, then on Tunnel or Connect to Tunnel and follow the login instructions.

If you click on the link, you will open a webpage resembling the Visual Studio Code IDE. You can then use that webpage in place of the app.

Output of the command to launch a Tunnel 
*
* Visual Studio Code Server
*
* By using the software, you agree to
* the Visual Studio Code Server License Terms (https://aka.ms/vscode-server-license) and
* the Microsoft Privacy Statement (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement).
*
✔ How would you like to log in to Visual Studio Code? · GitHub Account
To grant access to the server, please log into https://github.com/login/device and use code 1234-5678
✔ What would you like to call this machine? · node...
[2025-03-22 17:11:19] info Creating tunnel with the name: node...

Open this link in your browser https://vscode.dev/tunnel/node...

[2025-03-22 17:11:47] info [tunnels::connections::relay_tunnel_host] Opened new client on channel 2
[2025-03-22 17:11:47] info [russh::server] wrote id
[2025-03-22 17:11:47] info [russh::server] read other id
[2025-03-22 17:11:47] info [russh::server] session is running
[2025-03-22 17:11:49] info [rpc.0] Checking /home/guest/.vscode/cli/servers/Stable-ddc367ed5c8936efe395cffeec279b04ffd7db78/log.txt and /home/guest/.vscode/cli/servers/Stable-ddc367ed5c8936efe395cffeec279b04ffd7db78/pid.txt for a running server...
[2025-03-22 17:11:49] info [rpc.0] Downloading Visual Studio Code server -> /tmp/.tmpchN687/vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz
[2025-03-22 17:12:01] info [rpc.0] Starting server...
[2025-03-22 17:12:01] info [rpc.0] Server started

Bear in mind that Visual Studio Code is intended for interactive use. Thus, if your local instance disconnects from the network, also the remote instance will be deleted.