I havenāt used it in a while, maybe its better. Basically since vscode is an electron app it can run im he browser. You can even use https://vscode.dev which is the official web version. Iirc it didnāt have the same plugins, but itās pretty much the same thing.
Its super useful when you deploy alongside containers as an easy way to change configs in shared volumes.
Is installing VSCode locally "self hosting"? I thought that was how everybody did it. I just run the executable - no Docker or anything - for coding, testing etc. but I'm not sure what a VSCode "server" would even do.