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For collaborating on the code look at the Visual studio code feature called live share, which allows you to collaborate in real-time [1].

I've tried it and it worked well.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share

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I've tried it. It's... promising but very strange. A session between two people in the same Australian town was bounced via a server in the US. We had screen sharing via Discord at the same time which was far more responsive (but 720p, ugh).

The current implementation uses temp files everywhere and an odd way of driving Visual Studio. I'm really keen to see where this goes in the future.

Atom has https://teletype.atom.io/ as well. I don't have any experience with either though.

supposedly tandem leverages teletype work for vim and sublime

https://github.com/typeintandem/tandem

I agree that Live Share sounds like the perfect solution. You can even share ports, so your friend can access your development server.

You had me at the shared debug session. I am amazed at how VSCode has evolved in such a short span of time. Technically it's not an IDE but it has most of the required features of the IDE.

The liveshare feature does require you to be signed in to Github or Microsoft. So the sharing might not work with other proprietary SC or even Bitbucket or Gitlab.

YMMV though. I tried it last month on a local network and the lag was quite unbearable with sessions often going out of sync.

That looks very cool.

With the "rendez-vous" URL being hosted by Microsoft (it looks that way in the video), does it mean your source code is sent to Microsoft, or does the server-side simply act as a relay to facilitate communication between 2 endpoints without needing to be exposed to the code?

It may be sent to microsoft if a direct connection cannot be established between the liveshare clients (due to firewall/nat issues). In that case microsoft's servers act as a relay for both clients and therefore your code would be sent to microsoft owned servers. This relay feature can be disabled. More information available here. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/refe...

Indeed, according to the page you linked:

> Note that Live Share's cloud relay does not persist any traffic routed through it and does not "snoop" the traffic in any way.

So it sounds like it's your traditional NAT traversal with TURN/STUN, and their promise that they don't snoop if the end up relaying.

Very cool!

Where on that page does it say how to disable the relay feature?

I was going to suggest this as well. I've used it to explain some features to a friend while we were on Discord.

I'd it possible to share a browser window though? That's a key aspect for us!

Thanks!

Yes, see Dylan Van Bommel's comment on Fun Fun Function's collaborative stream: https://youtu.be/_OTUGVAEWCA

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