Is it possible to run validations in a remote environment?

[dcosson]

I've used Syntastic for a while and just stumbled across validator when browsing this issue vim-syntastic/syntastic#699

The conclusion there seemed to be that it's not feasible to allow syntastic to run the validations in a remote environment, at least partly because it sounds like syntastic checks can only run synchronously.

I noticed that validator mentions being an asynchronous validation checker, so I'm curious, is it possible to run validations in a remote environment? For example, ssh to a build server or docker exec into a running container

For some kinds of checkers (particularly ones that are more like compilers such as validating flow types in js) setting up the environment can be non-trivial. So it would be really useful to be able to run the checker in my already-configured app or build environment rather than having to separately configure a part of the build environment on OSX where vim is running.