Hi there @mnode184,

I actually have a similar setup, I use a $10 Droplet to develop my Laravel applications using this method as described here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-visual-studio-code-for-remote-development-via-the-remote-ssh-plugin

The resources that you would need would really be based on your personal and your application requirements. I could suggest checking the resources utilization of your Droplet while compiling to actually see if you are hitting any limits like CPU or RAM utilization.

To check the status of your Droplet you can SSH to the Droplet and use the htop command. That way for example if you see a really high CPU usage, you would know that you would have to add some extra resources and possibly upgrade your Droplet if needed.

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby