[garyrob]

This is totally new to me, so let me ask an extremely basic question.

The way I'm hearing what you're saying is: Lapdev sets up a remote environment that I access with my terminal via SSH, and do editing in using something like VSCode running on my local machine, accessing the remote environment with something like VSCode's Remote-SSH extension.

So by using lapped I can replicate the remote environment I normally access through those things easily on remote servers and cloud services? Is that right?

[lyang2821]

Yes that's correct.

To start with, I would suggest you to try VSCode Remote out with your own Linux box if you've got one, just to get a feel of "remote" development. You might like it or might not.