Chromebook https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Chromebook-Wi-Fi-11-6-Inch-Mo...
Secure Shell https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
DigitalOcean $5 droplet https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Free GitHub account (swapped back and forth between bitbucket)
For editing, I just became really good at vim. Then, if I was feeling froggy:
https://c9.io/, the free tier if needed.
So in the end, there was the initial cost $212 for the lappy (it's really small and lightweight too, great lappy), then a $5 recurring charge for the droplet that I would tunnel and own projects from there.
If you do think this path will be advantages, just be careful, get a simple DNS (hover.com) record too, things change you might want to move to a different provider.
Total Upfront cost: $222 + $5 + $20 doe DNS. Then recurring monthly is $5. The recurring yearly $20 for DNS. The first Year you are looking at $55, not including the upfront cost. Then the second year and going forward you are $60/yr and $20/y
The super nice part of all of this. you can destroy your environment with a vengeance, then start up a new droplet and things will be back to normal
This lappy did its job and is retirement with the significant other doing bills and looking at Facebook. Somedays I still wonder if that lappy misses the days of writing code till late in the morning on the back and only having to run the charger cable once. I would like to think it does.
My personal note, stay out of the cool guy editors at first. Use a minimal setup until you know exactly what you will be working on.