Allow guests to run project on their machine

[lukepighetti]

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

[MichealReed]

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.

[lukepighetti]

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

[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.

[lostintangent]

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

[Mikejo5000]

@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.

[Zekfad]

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

[visionm45]

this is needed.

[CryptAlchemy]

bump

[abn5x]

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!

[takoyaro]

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

[kwertyops]

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.

[emchristiansen]

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

[fubaduba]

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.

[Asmageddon]

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.

[JaegerwaldDev]

WE NEED THIS. THIS WOULD BE SO USEFUL TO HAVE.

[TheZoidMaster]

boosting this

[SwitchedCube]

Boosting this because this is useful ig

EDIT: BOOST THIS NOW THIS IS SUCH A HELPFUL FEATURE

[Sleet827]

Boosting this because my team asked me to.

[Feliposo21]

BOOOST UPP

[JakeR-wq]

boost!!!!!

[alpinevm]

boost, would be super useful

[Zekiah-A]

boost! basically impossible to collaboratively develop any non-webserver/GUI application when you can't build and run the application locally

[moveonwasd]

need this so much for the pygame