live-share Allow guests to run project on their machine

I do enjoy the ability to control someone's debugger/terminal, it's helpful for solving problems with pair programming. However, when you have two people co-developing a project it would be ideal if they can each run the project on their respective machines instead. This allows us to have our own debugger & browser/emulator running, otherwise we have to rely on video streaming tools to share the project. This breaks down when the video streaming quality degrades or you want to be able to do something like inspect CSS.

I am requesting a feature which allows a guest to run the project on their machine exactly as if it were a local project/workspace.

CC @groovinchip

May 12 '20 13:05 lukepighetti

A feature like this could do a lot to streamline multi-platform development with flutter. I have developed applications using flutter for web/iOS/Android/Windows/Linux, the ability to save a change on my host OS and see the results through hot-refresh across all platforms via live share session would save time no doubt.

Dec 21 '20 21:12 MichealReed

@MichealReed that was the exact use case that lead to this issue

Dec 22 '20 11:12 lukepighetti

I think this issue was closed prematurely. This would still be my strong preference for Live Share. Two projects running the exact same code, each running their own language server and debugger sessions.

Apr 01 '21 10:04 lukepighetti

We had a problem with a GitHub action that closed some issues unexpectedly. Apologies for that!

Apr 01 '21 13:04 lostintangent

@lostintangent @fubaduba Yes, sorry for the confusion! We found a bug in the GitHub action. I disabled the action until we fix and test it, and I've re-opened all the issues that were closed. It ran sometime this morning, so I re-opened everything that was closed starting today.

Apr 01 '21 16:04 Mikejo5000

I want to bring up this issue, because we're also interested in this functionality.

Jun 05 '21 14:06 Zekfad

this is needed.

Sep 21 '21 03:09 visionm45

bump

Oct 01 '21 21:10 CryptAlchemy

Would love to have this feature, currently sharing a server is very slow, and being able to have the code locally would help a lot!

Nov 03 '21 08:11 abn5x

In this new remote-work dynamic we all live in right now. This is a must-have.

Nov 29 '21 04:11 takoyaro

Adding another request for this - when collaborating on any kind of application involving graphics (website, GUI, etc.) the guest collaborator has no way of seeing the results of any code changes. My use case is collaborative code editing in a classroom setting, using a graphics library.

Jul 15 '22 15:07 kwertyops

I would love this!

I just asked about it on Stack Overflow, FYI: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73125759/synchronize-code-between-two-machines-for-pair-programming

Jul 26 '22 15:07 emchristiansen

Thank you for your interest in allowing local debugging. We will be evaluating this as a solution in the upcoming quarter as we focus on debugging with Live Share.

Nov 30 '22 00:11 fubaduba

Many projects require the ability to run them locally and I keep running into this limitation. Is there any ETA for this feature? Even just a "download host files" command would be great.