Due to the well known issue, it is diffcult for developers to do their work in China. A lot of services, repos are not easily accessible in China. This repo contains many tricks and tips to continue your developement work in China.

It is rather difficult to use VPN now in China. Also some VPN providers do have some options to bypass. Their services are not fully stable.

A great project called Showsocks (https://shadowsocks.org/) can help you proxy your traffic to a low-end server from outside China. You can easily create a proxy server yourself by using tools provided on its website: https://shadowsocks.org/en/download/servers.html I would recommend using an AWS server in JP to host your traffic. On your local machine, you can use https://github.com/shadowsocks/ShadowsocksX-NG/releases to config your proxy. By default, you can use "Global mode" to proxy all your traffic. Configuration is also easy. Add a server in servers-> Server Preferences. You should be able to visit all website using your browser.

a quick command to run shadowsocks docker

sudo docker run -e PASSWORD=[pw] -p [server-port]:8388 -p [server-port]:8388/udp  -d --restart always shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev:latest

with default encryption method is aes-256-gcm.

You can use https_proxy and http_proxy in your shell by export them:

export https_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:1087'
export http_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:1087'

You can add it to a bash file to easily enable it. I personally add it to a bash file named ss.sh with content

export https_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:1087'
export http_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:1087'
echo 'proxy enabled!'

There is proxy setting in it setting. You can add a SOCK5 proxy pointing to 127.0.0.1:1086 the default port for shadowsocks.

Enjoy your dev in China.