Visual Studio Live Share Presentation.md

VS Code Live Share

For fun and profit sharing

Why?

• We at Klarna (or at least in my team) do lot's of mobs
• Only watching your friend code? Not so fun
• Why not make writing code a co-op experience?
• Good way of pair/mob programming without a big screen

CO-OP

• Is fun!
• Is like playing video games locally (not so much)
• Productivity

Features

• Share your own "vs code instance" with your colleages so you can edit the same code-base
• You get to keep some configurations
  • By configurations I mean shortcuts and Vim mode
• Share servers !!!!
• Share the command line !!!!

What we currently do at Pro-🦆s?

• Sharing local servers
  • Local Services running for Klapp
  • Web front-end for development
  • We could even hack the react-native server to share the native development
• Sharing code!
  • Great for refactoring
  • We get to work in the same base
• Sharing the command line
  • Writing funny scripts and spooking your colleagues
• Smooooth onboarding of new members easier to the code base

Caveats

• Commits come with only one author :(
• Sometimes is hard to split activities
• Only work with VS Code (but I think there are plugins for other IDEs/Text Editors)