Can we have the Live Share Extension on IDX
I've been teaching students using IDX these days, more or less for fun and also to test how well the IDX AI performs w.r.t React.js. A feature that I use sometimes on the local machine is Live Share extension.
A brief description of the extension -
The Live Share Extension on VSCode enables other dev to work on the same instance of VSCode on multiple files, which is extremely useful when creating small scale projects.
I understand that it is developed by a different company (Microsoft) but it will be helpful specifically for teaching purposes.
There can be an alternative to Live Share, if it is possible, which can be installed on both VSCode (local) and on IDX which would serve the same purpose as the extension.
Abhideep Ghosh
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D. Kolev commented
Could we also open source it? It would be nice to have access to the API so that we can incorporate it in vim through a plugin.
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Kizi Gamer commented
I want the multi-edit capablities and having the other users edit the same file even if they joined from local vscode and also be able to see multiple files be worked on with multiple people at same time
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Luke Ertzberger commented
I would love to see live collaboration and shared chat or voice calls. Right now we have to share screen and describe to another dev what we want them to do in collaborative work.
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Amit commented
Yes, It is indeed an important missing feature.
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Hi Abhideep - the Live Share extension is licensed in a way where we can't provide it in IDX even if we wanted to. It can only be used on Microsoft's implementations.
With that said, we do want to provide similar capabilities in IDX. Are you primarily using the multi-edit capabilities? Do you use some of the other features like shared chat?
Thanks,
Kirupa
