Visual Studio Code SFTP plugin

Question

I'm looking for a VSCode SFTP plugin that:

• Is free, I'm willing to pay if there's only one plugin that does what I want, if the price is around $50 max, and if it's 1 time payment only.
• Supports authentication using an SSH private key and a passphrase
• Can map folders
• Works on windows 10 (All do but just to be safe I mentioned that)
• Most importantly, it should have the following feature:

if you have this mapping:

      "localPath": "/a/b"
      "remotePath": "/remote/a/b"

If you create edit a file in "/a/b/c/d" It should autmatically get edited on the server without any further configuration, and c/ folder doesn't exist on the server, it should automatically create it and then upload d file inside it. I don't want to specify multiple paths, only the parent directory path.

PHPStorm sftp does that, vscode-sftp does not do that, I have yet to find a vscode plugin that does that

Answer 1

As per our discussion above, I believe a better solution instead of using a plugin which sometimes is cumbersome, is to use a software that will map this SFTP as a network drive on your Windows 10 machine.

There are a lot of solutions out there, some paid and some free for personal use.

FREE for personal use

SFTP Net Drive https://www.nsoftware.com/sftp/netdrive/

I've used it in the past, plain, simple does the job no issues. I've also used another product that NSoftware bought called Eldos SFTP Net Drive and it worked fine as well but sadly it's not available anymore.

FREE to use even for business use

sshfs-win + SiriKali (GUI)

https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win https://mhogomchungu.github.io/sirikali/

It seems promising but it might be cumbersome to set up. Haven't used it

PAID Solutions

MountainDuck

https://mountainduck.io/comparison/

I haven't used MountainDuck personally but I've used its sister product called CyberDuck and I can only say the best words for it.

MountainDuck seems to be one of the best solutions out there which will not only allow you to mount an SFTP but WebDAV, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, OpenStack Swift, Microsoft OneDrive, BackBlaze B2, Google Drive and Dropbox as network drives.

The price for a single license comes up to 39$ and it seems that it worth the money, especially if you will use it for business and you want a trouble-free setup + support if required.