[yourad_io]

Have you considered sshfs?

I haven't used it in years but I recall it mostly working.

[visarga]

That's not good enough, no remote debugging and shell integration. VSCode makes you feel like you're on the remote system locally.

[RheingoldRiver]

> VSCode makes you feel like you're on the remote system locally.

In fact, you are. It runs the plugins on the remote system. Which, while nice for UX, made me upgrade my blog's droplet from 1GB to 2GB memory ($5/month -> $10/month). But I figured it's worth it because it lowers the barrier of entry to writing, and anything to make the process of writing as painless as possible is worth it (and I'm still publishing once/week so I guess it's paying off)....

[yourad_io]

But it mounts the remote fs as local. You should be able to debug locally and do whatever in the shell at it is a local mount, no?