🚨🚨This video is sponsored by Coder: coder.com/ 🚨🚨
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We’ve all been there. We messed up our environment because we installed something for a new project. We dropped our laptop, and boom, it was time for a new one. Or maybe you just upgraded to a new one - unless you have a Framework, amirite?
Going through and having to set things up again can be fun, don’t get us wrong - but not when you’re under a deadline. We’re exploring Coder.com, which sponsored this video.
Think of your computer as a thin client, and all of your development takes place in an orchestrated self-hosted (YAY FOR FREE STUFF) solution. In a team environment, you can use hosted solutions like Digital Ocean, AWS EC2 instances, and more.
In this video, we’re going to demonstrate just how straightforward it is to get started - even hosting this on your local machine. With a few simple configurations, you can click a button and have a pristine environment dedicated to your project.
But what about your Neovim configs? Tmux or Zellij? No worries. You can have these setups ready every time you ssh in. More of a VS Code user? The user-friendly interface offers a one-click solution that instantly drops you in your project in VS Code.
There’s a lot to like about Coder - from being free for self-hosting to just making it easier to get in and ship features without dealing with “works on my machine” or worse, it doesn’t work on my machine because of an environmental issue.
Let’s get after it.
Chapters:
0:00 - breaking a computer
1:50 - what is coder?
2:40 - how does coder work?
4:20 - locally host coder to spin up workspaces
7:00 - deploy our NEOVIM config anywhere with dotfiles
9:55 - create a new workspace
10:50 - showing off deploying neovim
11:54 - thin client concept
12:30 - spin up workspaces for co-workers
13:48 - why we made this video