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Live Lens

Biruk Belihu

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LiveLens gives you a realtime preview of your web projects without ever leaving vscode
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Live Lens for Visual Studio Code

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Live Lens gives you a realtime preview of your web projects without ever leaving vscode.

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📑 Table of Contents

  • Overview
  • Features
  • Screenshots
  • Settings
  • Installation
  • Contribute
  • License

Features

  • ⚡ Instant Preview → Live local server for Web(HTML/CSS/JS) projects
  • 🌍 Browser or Inline Panel → choose your preview mode
  • 🔄 Auto Reload → updates instantly when files change
  • 🔌 Customizable Port → default 5500, can be changed in settings
  • 🖥️ Seamless Integration → status bar toggle + start/stop commands

Screenshots

Live Lens Screenshot 1

Live Lens Screenshot 2

Live Lens Screenshot 3

Settings

LiveLens adds settings to customize preview behavior:

{
  "livelens.mode": "browser", // "browser" | "inline"
  "livelens.port": 5500       // server port number
}
Setting Type Default Description
mode string "inline" Choose preview mode: "browser" opens in external browser, "inline" opens in VS Code webview.
port number 5500 Port number for the local preview server.

Installation

  1. Open the Extensions panel in Visual Studio Code
    • Ctrl+Shift+X (Windows/Linux)
    • Cmd+Shift+X (macOS)
  2. Search for Live Lens.
  3. Install.

👉 Install from Visual Studio Code Marketplace


Contribute

Want to improve Live Lens? Contributions are welcome!

  • Open an issue
  • Submit a pull request

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

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