Blog: Using VS Code with Remote Explorer and DDEV

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@ultimike's technique for using VS Code with DDEV is different and interesting. After ddev start uses the Remote Explorer to interact with the entire webserver environment inside the web container. He's spoken about this a number of times, as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yqx2hwUPY

Having a more official and maintained place for this would be good, a blog post is a good spot. It's not hard, and DDEV has good support.

Use the private link to his google doc as well.

I had hoped to provide new guidance on using the Devcontainers extension with VS Code and a new multi-arch image, see

• build: Provide new multi-arch ddev-devcontainers-base image to replace ddev-gitpod-base, for #6891 [skip ci] ddev#6977

But I'm pretty much stuck on that. However, it's probably me just being stuck because I'm trying to make it work for Codespaces along with everywhere else.

There is also a BoF scheduled for Drupalcon Atlanta 2025 on the topic of improving DDEV support for VS Code.