✨ SSH for Remote Hosts and Remote System Explorer (RSE)
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- desktop, networking
Research direction
The issue does not identify files, tests, or entry points; begin by locating the app's existing connection and file-navigation architecture. Define the SSH and remote-system-explorer scope and acceptance criteria with maintainers before implementation, including secure profiles, remote file operations, and in-place editing.
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Description
Description
Support for connecting to remote hosts via SSH is essential for developers who work in distributed or server-based environments. This feature would allow users to open remote projects, edit files, and navigate remote file systems directly within the app.
Proposed Features
- SSH Integration:
- Connect to remote machines via SSH
- Manage and save SSH connection profiles (host, port, auth method, etc.)
- Support for private key authentication and passphrases
- Maintain secure and persistent connections
- Remote System Explorer (RSE):
- Browse and interact with remote file systems in a dedicated navigator
- Support basic file operations (create, delete, rename, move, copy)
- Open and edit remote files in-place with seamless sync
- Show connection and path status in the UI
- Optionally cache file metadata or contents for performance
Future Considerations:
- Terminal access to remote hosts
- Remote debugging support
- Integration with remote language servers and build tools
Additional Context:
This feature will greatly expand the use cases for developers working on servers, containers, or embedded systems, where local access to code is not always possible.
- Dominant language
- Swift
- Stars
- 23k
- Forks
- 1.2k
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
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