Guide for live share to collaborate.

vscode_livershare.md

📝 About

Guide for VSCode Live Share to collaborate.

This guide supports languages below.

• English
• 한국어

Created: 2020-06-05
Last updated: 2020-08-26 minor typo correction

💿 Installation

Install Live Share extension

Go to View > Extensions.
Search & insall Live Share Extension Pack.

Reload VSCode

Press F1 to search the menu.
Search & run Developer: Reload Windows.
Now you could check out Live Share icon on the status bar.

💡 Tip: whole features of VSCode could be searched.

👬 Start collaboration

Click Live Share icon on the status bar.

Login

You'll be asked to login with your GitHub or Microsoft account first time.
We would continue with Github.
Allow all the things asked while setup.
After that, Live Share icon on the status bar would change to Nickname depend on your account information.

Session

The session would start automatically at first.
Choose Join collabration session... or Start collabration session... next time.

💌 Invitation

Click Participants > Invite participants....
The invite link would be copied to clipboard.
Send is to anyone you want to collaborate.

💬 Communication

Live share has their own built-in tools for communication.
You no longer need to keep open Skype, Slack, Facetime or any other app you use.

Chat

To chat with your collaborators,
click Chat Channels > Session chat.

Audio Call

To call your collaborators,
click Audio Call Participants.

🎉 TADA!

👀 References

• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-pack
• https://scotch.io/tutorials/getting-started-with-live-coding-in-visual-studio-code-with-live-share