SplaySpace: Live Collaborative Coding

Share a folder from VS Code and edit it together with your team in real time. See where your teammates are working, comment on code, and keep a normal local copy of the project on every computer.

Get started

1. Select the SplaySpace icon in the Activity Bar, then select Sign In. Choose GitHub, Microsoft or Google, then choose a username.
2. To share a folder, select Create Project. You see which files will be shared before anything leaves your computer.
3. To invite people, select Invite on the project's card. Invite by username, or create an invite link that expires in 30 days.
4. To join a project, accept the invitation in the sidebar and select Open, or select Join with Invite Link and paste the link a teammate sent you.

You can also run Help: Welcome and open Get Started with SplaySpace.

Members and Observers

• Members edit shared files, add files and comment.
• Observers see changes live and read comments, but cannot edit. The status bar shows View only in their projects.

The host invites people, chooses their role and can change it at any time.

Offline

If SplaySpace loses its connection, shared files become read-only within about 10 seconds and the status bar shows Offline (read-only). Edits you made that SplaySpace could not confirm stay in your editor. When it reconnects, files unlock. A file that you and a teammate both changed is held for you to review, so neither version is lost.

Privacy and .splayignore

SplaySpace shares the files in your project folder with the people you invite, through the SplaySpace service. It never shares:

• node_modules, .git, dist, out, build, __pycache__ and .venv folders;
• .env files and *.pem and *.key files.

To keep other files private, list them in a .splayignore file at the project root. Write one pattern per line, as in a .gitignore file. Files up to 1 MB each are shared, and up to 2,000 files or 50 MB per project.

Settings

Search for @ext:SplaySpace.splayspace in Settings to change:

• auto-save and its delay;
• the teammate markers in the Explorer, the scrollbar and beside functions;
• whether you can type in a function a teammate is working in;
• whether SplaySpace connects when you open a folder inside a project.

Support

Visit splayspace.com/support. To report a problem, run SplaySpace: Show Logs and describe what you were doing.