General

Install VS Code
Install Remote SSH plugin for VS Code
Click green connection bit in lower left corner of vs code
Provide SSH login target, i.e. ssh rarch@1.2.3.4
VS Code will prompt for password
Once connected, green connection bit should show SSH:1.2.3.4 to indicate that you're connected
Once connected, click on open folder, vs code will do an ls in the home directory, choose trunk
You're good to go
If you open a terminal within vs code, you'll automatically be dropped in as rarch in the home dir
If you right-click on a directory in the tree, you can choose, "Open in Integrated Terminal" and it will open a terminal and cd into that directory
You can have multiple terminals running at the same time

Git

Make sure your credentials are saved on the VM
Be aware that the Git tab in vs code may not instantly show changes...that is to say, you may need to hit the little refresh icon first

Open ui dir in integrated terminal
You will likely need to tweak inotify settings for live reload to not complain about hitting a system limit for file watchers see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55763428/react-native-error-enospc-system-limit-for-number-of-file-watchers-reached
- insert the new value into the system config echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p
- check that the new value was applied cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
you will need the IP of your remote VM mapped in DNS to dev.retailarchitects.com in your local etc/hosts file (note: this isn't currently possible on ChromeOS so you'll have to create a .env.local and override WEBPACK_PROXY to your VM's address)
yarn install then yarn serve
point your browser to http://dev.retailarchitects.com:8080