Editor Extensions

Visual Studio

• CodeStream - Provides an integrated chat and rich commenting system, that includes the ability to spin up Live Share sessions.
• OzCode - Provides awesome debugging enhancements, including a fully collaborative time-travel debugger.

Visual Studio Code

• GitLive - See what your teammates are working on in real-time and get notified of merge conflicts before you commit, make video calls with Live Share built-in.
• CodeStream - Provides an integrated chat and rich commenting system, that includes the ability to easily spin up Live Share sessions from a chat thread.
• Discord Presence - Allows other Discord users to easily spectate and/or join your active Live Share sessions (example).
• Drawio Integration - Provides a rich diagraming canvas, that includes a fully collaborative experience, including shared cursors for all participants (example).
• Chronicler - Allows you to automatically record a video of your Live Share sessions, for later use/reference (e.g. sharing with the team).
• Live Share Spaces - Provides a way to discover, communicate and recieve assistance in real-time, from developers across your favorite teams, classrooms and communites.
• Peacock - Enables you to visually identity when you’re in a Live Share session, by changing the color of the workbench (e.g. title bar, activity bar, status bar).
• Profile Switcher - Allows you to define a settings profile that is activated/deactivated when you start/end a Live Share session (example).
• Quokka.js - A live JavaScript scratchpad, that can be collaboratively edited by everyone in a Live Share session (example).
• Test Explorer - Provides a shared test runner, where the results of test runs are viewable in real-time.
• Code Time - Automatically track how you spend your time coding, including the time spent in Live Share sessions (example).
• Live Share Pomodoro - Provides a shared Pomodoro timer for everyone in the Live Share session, which can help add some structure to your pairing workflow (example).
• Live Share Mob Timer - Provides a shared mob timer for everyone in the Live Share session, and notifies you when it's time to switch "drivers". Brought to you by the awesome folks at Pluralsight!
• GitHub Pull Requests - Allows you to review a PR in real-time with other developers (example).
• GitLens - Enables guests within a Live Share session to view inline Git blame info as well as rich commit history. This is one of the most valuable VS Code extensions in the marketplace, and it's also fully collaborative! (example).
• Browser Preview - Allows participants within a Live Share session to browse the same pages together, which can be particularly using for debugging a web app, or viewing documentation (example).
• Live Server - Allows you to easily spin up a local web server for static HTML files. When in a Live Share session, the local servers are automatically shared with guests, so that everyone can work on it together, without needing to manually share the underlying port (example).

Resources

Articles

• Collaboration Doesn't Come in "One Size Fits All" - Describes the multi-modality experience that Live Share enables for collaboration (e.g. focusing on the same thing, working independently).
• Providing a Real-Time Compliment for Git-Based Collaboration - Illustrates how Live Share can be used to enhance existing Git workflows (e.g. code reviews, pull requests)
• You Can’t Spell Collaboration Without Communication - Describes the Live Share Extension Pack, and the integrated communication experiences it adds on top of Live Share “core” (e.g. audio calls, text chat).
• Building a Fully-Extensible Developer Collaboration Platform - Describes the Live Share SDK and how it enables Visual Studio Code extensions time add their own collaborative experiences.
• Localhost Isn't Local Anymore - Goes into detail about the ability to share localhost servers as part of a Live Share session.
• Collaborative Development Requires a Shared Browser - Illustrates how to collaboratively browse web pages via the Browser Preview extension.
• Visual Studio Live Share Can Do That? - Highlights some of the more compelling features of Live Share along with some pro-tips.

Extensibility SDKS

• Sample Extension - A simple, collaborative counter extension, which illustrates how to synchronize custom state between participants in a Live Share session
• Visual Studio Code - NPM package for adding Live Share integration to your Visual Studio Code extension.
• Visual Studio - NuGet package for adding Live Share integration to your Visual Studio extension.

Workflow Details

• Remote Mob Programming