code-server-update.sh

#!/bin/bash

DIR="$HOME/bin"

cd /tmp

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cdr/code-server/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.\+linux-x86_64.tar.gz" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget --output-document=code-server.tar.gz -qi -

tar xvzf /tmp/code-server.tar.gz --strip=1 --overwrite --wildcards --no-anchored -C "$DIR" 'code-server'
chmod +x "$DIR/code-server"

The release file naming scheme has changed slightly. wget will fail using this script. Change line 8 from linux-x64 to linux-x86_64.

Done :)

Thanks for posting this script. The script seems to work for me and everything installs but when I run
./code-server -H -p 8080
I get this:
./code-server: 18: exec: /home/jslatane/bin/node: not found
Is this something to do with not having node.js installed? I tried installing that as well but that didn't work. Any help is appreciated!

That seems odd, code-server has changed a lot since I wrote this gist perhaps it's best to try to follow the instructions at https://github.com/cdr/code-server

Hey, I've used this great script and want to thank you for it. I'm not sure but it looks like the name has changed again to "code-server-3.3.0-linux-amd64" for the tarball, from what I can tell.

They also recently switched to distributing .debs instead which maybe a neater solution.