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by wlesieutre 2146 days ago
code-server has most extensions available. They do it by scraping GitHub for extensions and building them.

https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/3da6c561b83d2a4c57f3...

The Microsoft extensions are notably missing, but they have a lot of other ones. There's an issue template for requesting another one if you find something missing.

Not sure if their second extension store is available for use by software other than code-server, but it's not an impossible problem.

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code-server also lets you customize the marketplace URL at runtime.

https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/doc/FAQ.md#ho...

  SERVICE_URL=https://open-vsx.org/vscode/gallery
  ITEM_URL=https://open-vsx.org/vscode/item
So you can use open-vsx, ours or Microsoft's (with the caveat that you would violate their license).

See this thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issue-24453...

There's been recent discussion about TypeFox and Coder combining efforts on Open VSX after the transfer to Eclipse Foundation is complete.

https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1473

It is indeed, anyone should feel free to use it.

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