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Visual Studio Live Share vs Convergence: What are the differences?
Visual Studio Live Share: Real-time collaborative development. When you start a live share session in Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code, your teammates get instant and secure access to your code in their own tool – no need to clone, copy, or configure anything; Convergence: The real-time collaboration engine. It is an engine for real-time collaboration. Out of the box, it includes everything a developer would need to add real-time co-editing functionality to any web application.
Visual Studio Live Share and Convergence can be primarily classified as "Realtime Code Collaboration" tools.
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Pros of Visual Studio Live Share
- Terminal sharing4
- Server sharing3
- Port sharing3
- Real-time2
- IntelliSense Completion2
- Files sync2
- Workspace sync1
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- No Read Only sharing1
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What is Convergence?
It is an engine for real-time collaboration. Out of the box, it includes everything a developer would need to add real-time co-editing functionality to any web application.
What is Visual Studio Live Share?
When you start a live share session in Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code, your teammates get instant and secure access to your code in their own tool – no need to clone, copy, or configure anything.
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Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.