As a developer, we oftentimes participate in code reviews where we are either sharing our screen, or viewing someone else’s code. How hard is it to identify where some code needs to be changed, or it’s hard to follow someone navigating through their code.

Perhaps you are rubber duck debugging, and your code still isn’t making sense. That whole “it works in my Docker container, but not in the Sandbox”, and wouldn’t it be nice to debug WITH a co-worker? You can both set break points within the same code base, and debug within someone’s local Docker container.

Maybe you want to speed up development. One person is adding fields and pages, and someone else is adding some custom business logic, but it relies on those fields being created. We know that you need to add the related fields to the “sister tables” to the data flows through to all the related posted tables, but man, does that take some extra effort. You can share one person’s VS Code instance, and pair program!

If any of the above scenarios sound interesting to you, then you need to install the Live Share VS Code extension!

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