Is the editor Atom able to open projects on a remote server? - atom-editor

Question

Atom is able to open a project, and to show the whole tree of the project on the left side, a really nice feature.
Now I'm using SSH on Host OS to access a Guest OS (say Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL) on Virtualbox, is there a way of Atom located in Host OS to open a project located on RHEL?

Answer 1

Well yes there is!
You just need to configure sshfs, optionally with autofs. Then you can access the files as if they are stored locally. I've used this with Atom and it works seamlessly.
Instructions for Ubuntu
Install sshfs
$ sudo apt-get install sshfs
Mount the remote directory on a local mountpoint
$ sshfs [user#]host:[dir] mountpoint
Combining it with autofs
The following link has instructions for a setup using autofs.
Note: This requires you to setup SSH for the root user.
http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/05/totally-seamless-sshfs-under-linux-using-fuse-and-autofs/
Additionally to that post, I've added some tricks for an even more seamless experience.
Enhance performance
I've noticed a significant performance boost by adding this SSH config to /root/.ssh/config:
Ciphers arcfour
Compression no
Note: This does make the connection less secure.
Make it appear as a disk
If you set the mount point to a directory in /media, the mount point will show up as a disk in your file browser. For example /media/sshfs.

Answer 2

I would recommend the Remote sync plugin for this. I have a python environment set up on a linux box and i connect to it from my PC.
It allows me to upload changes automatically when i save a file and also define files to be monitored for changes.

Answer 3

Not 100% what you're looking for, but there's the Remote-Edit package: https://atom.io/packages/remote-edit
This will allow you to define the connection parameters for the server, and will then allow you to browse and edit the files found on the server.

Answer 4

Complement to Remco's sshfs answer above:
If you use different users in the client and server hosts, consider using the 'idmap' option of sshfs.
I use different users in my working host and in the development or testing VMs.
Example:
using option '-o idmap=user' will automatically translate UID/GID of the remote host to the UID/GID of the connecting user in the local host
Files owned by remote user (devuser) in remote host (devhost1) will appear as belonging to the connecting user (locuser) in local host (clienthost)
locuser#clienthost:~$ sshfs devuser#devhost1:/var/www ~/dev/www -o idmap=user
locuser#clienthost:~$ ls -lR ~/dev/www
(...)
-rw-rw-r-- 1 locuser locuser 269 abr 1 11:37 index.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 locuser locuser 249 abr 3 03:59 page1.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 locuser locuser 1118 abr 2 15:07 page2.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 locuser locuser 847 abr 3 03:20 page3.html
(...)
The mapping can also be made explicit (userx <-> usery). For more details see man sshfs

Answer 5

I am writing this answer because none of the other answers worked for me.
Mounting as a directory & browsing with atom (#Remco Haszing answer) was a brilliant one.
but in my case, atom wants to index all of the remote project & its a heavy one. and it gets not responding.
using remote-sync package was good when you working locally then want to upload the files to server.
Actually the remote-edit is the package meant to do this job. (editing files remotely on ssh)
the problem with this is, it has been abandon.
These help me as its replacements:
https://atom.io/packages/remote-edit-ni
https://atom.io/packages/remote-editor